Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESI believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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The duty of “saving” became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
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Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if they were executed by those who think and feel wrongly.
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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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Gold is a relic from a time when government’s were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
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Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.
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The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.
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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?
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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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