Famous Quotes

"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."

John Maynard Keynes on War

More quotes about War

• "He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."

  Albert Einstein on War

• "One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on War

• "The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."

  Albert Einstein on War

• "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

  Dwight D. Eisenhower on War

• "We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender."

  Winston Churchill on War

More quotes by John Maynard Keynes

• "Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent."

• "The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward."

• "The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future."

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

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