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Type: Economist Quotes Category: English Economist Quotes Date of Birth: June 5, 1883 Date of Death: April 21, 1946 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: John Maynard Keynes Related Authors: Thomas Malthus Alfred Marshall Nassau William Senior William Petty James Meade Dudley North E. F. Schumacher |
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 In the long run, we're 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 The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones. John Maynard Keynes The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion. John Maynard Keynes The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods. John Maynard Keynes The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. John Maynard Keynes The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds. John Maynard Keynes The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds. John Maynard Keynes The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy. John Maynard Keynes The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future. John Maynard Keynes The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future. John Maynard Keynes There is no harm in being sometimes wrong- especially if one is promptly found out. John Maynard Keynes Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking. John Maynard Keynes |
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