John Maynard
John Maynard
bad-ass drunk wish
I wish I'd drunk more champagne.
jobs fate politics
One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli.
powerful freedom ideas
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.
years issues mind
But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn't you argue the other side?" He said, "That's true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?
ideas ties errors
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.
thinking government criminals
I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
believe average america
Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
history mind opinion
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
pregnancy intelligent mind
Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
years liberty littles
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.
love money men
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
beautiful war intelligent
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.
profit enterprise thrift
The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
book competition liberty
[T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to the conditions of a totalitarian state, than is the theory of production and distribution of a given output produced under the conditions of free competition and a large measure of laissez-faire.