The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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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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Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant’s profit, we have begun to change our civilization.
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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.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
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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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The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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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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It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.
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Economics is a very dangerous science.
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