Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESNothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
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When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
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Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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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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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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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.
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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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I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.
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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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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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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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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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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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