I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
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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 important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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A speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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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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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.
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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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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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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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