When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIt is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.
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Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.
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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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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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The introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating the predominance of speculation in the United States.
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Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country’s advantage at variance with its neighbours’ as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.
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The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, – but generally to be obtained at your neighbor’s expense.
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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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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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In the long run we are all dead.
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Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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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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