Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIt is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.
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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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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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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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Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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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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The duty of “saving” became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
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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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Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.
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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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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.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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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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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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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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