They offer me neither food nor drink - intellectual nor spiritual consolation... [Conservatism] leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal; it conforms to no intellectual standard, it is not safe, or calculated to preserve from the spoilers that degree of civilization which we have already attained.
"The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes". Book by John Maynard Keynes, Cambridge University Press, volume IX, 1998.
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