The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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 .
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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It is Enterprise which build and improves the world’s possessions. If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.
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I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize – not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years – the way the world thinks about economic problems.
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If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.
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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.
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Men will not always die quietly.
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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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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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Economics is a very dangerous science.
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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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I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
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Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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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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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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