John Maynard Keynes Quote

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 civilisation which we have already attained.

On the Conservative Party; Skidelsky (1992:231) quoting Collected Writings Volume IX page 296-297