Competition for status is a zero sum game

- Richard Layard, Baron Layard

There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income and strive for it. Yet as Western societies have got richer, their people …

- Richard Layard, Baron Layard

No society can work unless its members feel responsibilities as well as rights.

- Richard Layard, Baron Layard

Derek Bok asks the right question, 'What policies would produce the greatest happiness?' and he gives great and often startling answers, combining hi…

- Richard Layard, Baron Layard

People who achieve a sense of meaning in their lives are happier than those who live from one pleasure to another.

- Richard Layard, Baron Layard

Kindness is like mercy: it blesses him that gives and him that takes.

- Richard Layard, Baron Layard