One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accomplished.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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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 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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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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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 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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I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England.
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There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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