I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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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The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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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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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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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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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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Ideas shape the course of history.
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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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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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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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.
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