Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
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For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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Ideas shape the course of history.
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But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn’t you argue the other side?” He said, “That’s true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?
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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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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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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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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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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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Gold is a relic from a time when government’s were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
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