John Maynard
John Maynard
numbers telephones remember
I can't remember my telephone number, but I know it was in the high numbers.
heart our-generation space
To our generation Einstein has been made to become a double symbol - a symbol of the mind travelling in the cold regions of space, and a symbol of the brave and generous outcast, pure in heart and cheerful of spirit.
education laughter inspiration
Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
real merit reason
Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case
integrity population would-be
Nothing can preserve the integrity of contact between individuals, except a discretionary authority in the state to revise what has become intolerable. The powers of uninterrupted usury are too great. If the accretions of vested interests were to grow without mitigation for many generations, half the population would be no better than slaves to the other half.
mistake long good-things
It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you're found out quickly.
mind
When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
decay world may
It is Enterprise which build and improves the world's possessions...If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.
struggle class want
The Economic Problem...the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.
quality mud faults
How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and surely carry the seeds of all human advancement?
years cities bishops
To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
civilization tests profit
Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization.
writing autumn fortune
In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes.
important politics rewards
It is not the ownership of the instruments of production which it is important for the State to assume. If the State is able to determine the aggregate amount of resources devoted to augmenting the instruments and the basic rate of reward to those who own them, it will have accomplished all that is necessary. Moreover, the necessary measures of socialization can be introduced gradually and without a break in the general traditions of society.