The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.
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The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.
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I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
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When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.
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A speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.
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The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
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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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How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, – but generally to be obtained at your neighbor’s expense.
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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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