There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESBut my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn’t you argue the other side?” He said, “That’s true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
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The treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them, and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again.
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Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.
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What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.
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It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.
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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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