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.
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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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.
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I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself is in many ways extremely objectionable.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.
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The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems – the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
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If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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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 difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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