“Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if they were executed by those who think and feel wrongly.”

It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.

It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.

The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.

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

The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.

There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.

If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.

One’s knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.

The key to selecting the winner isn’t choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick

Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.

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.

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

By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.

I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.

Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.

There is nothing more dangerous than a person with only one right answer.

Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.

In a few days, newspapers can make a trivial incident in itself a dangerous issue that shakes the state, and it can also bring vital issues to the fore into oblivion, so that the public will soon forget them.

A powerful woman is dangerous heaven and hell both want the rights anticipation is a one-night stand or better yet use your own fucking hand.

She’s beautiful, yes, but dangerous remember – there is a difference between admiring the fire and putting your hand in the flame.

He is the danger and my soul loves it.

My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.

I had field experience, a vocabulary, and a criminal mind. I was a danger to myself and others.