All John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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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.
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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.
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Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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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.
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If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
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By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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