Keynes, John Maynard -- Essays in Persuasion, Part 4 “Politics,” ch. 1, sec. 2 (1931)

Dave — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 17:09:36 +0000

At any rate to me it seems clearer every day that the moral problem of our age is concerned with the love of money, with the habitual appeal to the money motive in nine-tenths of the activities of life, with the universal striving after individual economic security as the prime object of endeavour, with the social approbation of money as the measure of constructive success, and with the social appeal to the hoarding instinct as the foundation of the necessary provision for the family and for the future.

John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) English economist
Essays in Persuasion, Part 4 “Politics,” ch. 1, sec. 2 (1931)
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Russell, Bertrand -- Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 3 “Competition” (1930)

Dave — Wed, 28 May 2025 15:35:50 +0000

For my part, the thing that I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern man desires to get with it is more money, with a view to ostentation, splendour, and the outshining of those who have hitherto been his equals.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 3 “Competition” (1930)
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WIST Quotations

Keynes, John Maynard -- Essays in Persuasion, Part 4 “Politics,” ch. 1, sec. 2 (1931)

Russell, Bertrand -- Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 3 “Competition” (1930)