All John Maynard Keynes Quotes
I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
John Maynard Keynes
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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
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The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
John Maynard Keynes
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
John Maynard Keynes
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
John Maynard Keynes
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
John Maynard Keynes
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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.
John Maynard Keynes
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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
John Maynard Keynes
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong- especially if one is promptly found out.
John Maynard Keynes
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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
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
John Maynard Keynes
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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
John Maynard Keynes
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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
John Maynard Keynes
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
John Maynard Keynes
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