• Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

• I do not know which makes a man more conservative to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

• The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

• In the long run we are all dead.