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.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESBy 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.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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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 do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.
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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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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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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 businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.
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Men will not always die quietly.
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It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.
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Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if they were executed by those who think and feel wrongly.
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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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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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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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