The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESPyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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Ideas shape the course of history.
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Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant’s profit, we have begun to change our civilization.
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By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.
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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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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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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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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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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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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?
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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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