Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIdeas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel – these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible and above all let finance be primarily national.
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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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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I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize – not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years – the way the world thinks about economic problems.
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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
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But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.
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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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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
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But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn’t you argue the other side?” He said, “That’s true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?
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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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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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