There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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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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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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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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It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.
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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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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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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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