There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIt would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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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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The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.
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If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.
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I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.
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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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As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.
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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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Ideas shape the course of history.
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.
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