Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
Ideas, 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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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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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion.
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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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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
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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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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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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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The key to selecting the winner isn’t choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick
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