Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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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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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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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I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
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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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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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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accomplished.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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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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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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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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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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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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