A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
John Maynard Keynes

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
John Maynard Keynes

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
John Maynard Keynes

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
John Maynard Keynes

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
John Maynard Keynes

For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
John Maynard Keynes

I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
John Maynard Keynes

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
John Maynard Keynes

Ideas shape the course of history.
John Maynard Keynes

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
John Maynard Keynes

In the long run we are all dead.
John Maynard Keynes

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
John Maynard Keynes

It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
John Maynard Keynes

Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.
John Maynard Keynes

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
John Maynard Keynes

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
John Maynard Keynes

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
John Maynard Keynes

Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
John Maynard Keynes

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
John Maynard Keynes

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
John Maynard Keynes