I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

I do not know which makes a man more conservative to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past

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

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

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.

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.