I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESGold is a relic from a time when government’s were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
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The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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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.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.
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When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.
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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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The key to selecting the winner isn’t choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.
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