How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESI work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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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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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
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The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.
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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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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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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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The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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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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The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn’t deliver the goods.
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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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