Western civilisation, the élitists all understood, is built upon discrimination: a culture that does not rest on discrimination, that penalises people who discriminate, or rewards the undiscriminating, is worth very little and has only callow, childish pleasures. — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
“At present", Keynes said in 1926, "everything is politics, and nothing policies.” — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
“Instead of using their vastly increased material and technical resources to build a wonder-city, they built slums; and they thought it right and advisable to build slums because slums, on the test of private enterprise, "paid", whereas the wonder-city would, they thought, have been an act of foolish extravagance, which would, in the imbecile idiom of the financial fashion, have… — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share
“Experiment and reason, tempered by intuition, were to him preferable to solid plodding in the well-trodden paths of experience.” — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
“Ritzonia" was the epithet coined by Bernard Bernson, who sold Italian pictures to American millionaires, to describe the unreal, mortifying sameness of their luxury.… — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
“He was sceptical about the value of almost all work, save for the pleasure it gives the worker,' reported Virginia Woolf. 'He works only… — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
Madness is not enlightenment, but the search for enlightenment is often mistaken for madness. — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
Western civilisation, the élitists all understood, is built upon discrimination: a culture that does not rest on discrimination, that penalises people who discriminate, or… — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
“The first chap we said was loafing, until he died. That's nearly always the verdict on a sailing ship, anyway. A man is invariably… — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
Rules, whether they govern sexual morality or financial probity, regardless of whether they are justifiable or undesirable, always provoke bold recalcitrants to devise clever,… — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
“He never sat an examination in economics: his knowledge came from pondering problems and discussing them as much as from book-learning.” — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
“The science of public happiness was how Keynes saw his work as an economist.” — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
