John Maynard
John Maynard
mean reality hands
The love of money as a possession-as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life-will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease
inspirational change lying
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
years two quality
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exulted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the highest virtues.
government continuing-on important
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
brought corner difficulty escaping
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.