I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe duty of “saving” became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
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To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
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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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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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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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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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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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Ideas shape the course of history.
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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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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 engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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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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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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