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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.

John Maynard Keynes

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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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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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Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I was brought up and for many years I taught
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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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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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.
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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
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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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I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
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The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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Crime End Government Myself Work
There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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Finding Harm Oneself Wrong
It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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Balance Bank Better Citizenship Man

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