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.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESFor my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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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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The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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The treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them, and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again.
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Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel – these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible and above all let finance be primarily national.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.
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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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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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The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.
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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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Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.
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An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.
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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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