“The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom.”

The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.

I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.

All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.

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

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

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?

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.

When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.

How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?

The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.

It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.

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

Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.

I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.

The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.

Pasteur will be celebrated almost as a God-like figure. This is when the moon completes her great cycle, but by other rumors, he shall be dishonored.

When you experience loss, people say you’ll move through the 5 stages of grief: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance. What they don’t tell you is that you’ll cycle through them all every day.

That’s what officers must do – break the cycle of fear. If a soldier is concentrating on his own feelings and on his own fear, and he sees you moving around, he realizes that you’re sharing the burden with him. That’s why he can then move.

She was a moon, that vanished and transformed into fullness.

A vicious cycle of becoming the thing that hurt you the most- Life.

Move on – but keep in mind that history repeats itself, unless you choose to break the cycle.

You are not hard to love. You are just stuck in a cycle of asking for it from the wrong person.

Understanding our history is one of many ways to break the cycle of racial injustice in this country. ⁣