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 KEYNESThe boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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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 social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
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Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.
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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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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?
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It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and that there is no direct relation between the truth of a proposition and its probability. Probability begins and ends with probability.
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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country’s advantage at variance with its neighbours’ as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.
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The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.
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Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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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.
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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