Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESWhenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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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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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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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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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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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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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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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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Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
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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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I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, – but generally to be obtained at your neighbor’s expense.
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