The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESGovernment machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
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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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Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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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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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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Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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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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All 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 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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Economics is a very dangerous science.
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