The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems – the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESAll 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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One’s knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.
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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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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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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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Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country’s advantage at variance with its neighbours’ as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.
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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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Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis , and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.
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For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
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Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel – these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible and above all let finance be primarily national.
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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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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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 duty of “saving” became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
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But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
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To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
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