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?
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESI do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
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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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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.
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Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduction of taxation will run a better chance than an increase of balancing the budget.
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Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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The Economic Problem, the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.
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Men will not always die quietly.
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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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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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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion.
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Ideas shape the course of history.
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