The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESCapitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
-
-
There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES -
When the facts change, I change my mind.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES -
It is Enterprise which build and improves the world’s possessions. If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES -
The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES -
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 -
The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES -
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.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES -
The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES -
Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES -
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES -
Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis , and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES -
The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES -
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES -
Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES -
Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES