The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESPractical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.
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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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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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Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?
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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 atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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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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Economics is a very dangerous science.
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All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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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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Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.
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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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It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
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