If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

Ideas shape the course of history.

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.

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

It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

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

Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.

In the long run we are all dead.

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.

The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.

There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of reasons will somehow work for the benefit of us all.

We will not have any more crashes in our time.

If I owe you a pound I have a problem but if I owe you a million the problem is yours.

The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity preference was the outstanding evil the prime impediment to the growth of wealth in the ancient and medieval worlds.

Economics is a very dangerous science.

Education the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.

Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.

DJs and people in the street know what they like.

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.

We dominated Survivor - there is no way we would not dominate that, too. I can see it already, us making deals with people. That's the best part, and with the Race, it would be even more fun because I've got a lot of tricks up my sleeve.

I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people.

We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people.

Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well.

Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a very individual thing because I heard some people say, like, oh I don't like it at all. But I definitely, for me it really made a big difference.

My goal is, of course, for this show to do well, and I would love it if people liked it.

I hate wasting people's time.