Economics is a very dangerous science.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESDangerous 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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Men will not always die quietly.
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The Economic Problem, the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.
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Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduction of taxation will run a better chance than an increase of balancing the budget.
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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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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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Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.
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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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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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