The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESI believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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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 would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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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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If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.
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Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country’s advantage at variance with its neighbours’ as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.
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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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It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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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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I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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The Economic Problem, the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.
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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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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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One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accomplished.
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