What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
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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Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
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There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.
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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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Ideas shape the course of history.
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By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
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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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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.
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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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To our generation Einstein has been made to become a double symbol – a symbol of the mind travelling in the cold regions of space, and a symbol of the brave and generous outcast, pure in heart and cheerful of spirit.
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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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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 central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive.
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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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