The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESAll production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.
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The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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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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I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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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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For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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It 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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The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive.
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