I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe 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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The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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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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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I was brought up and for many years I taught
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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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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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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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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To our generation Einstein has been made to become a double symbol – a symbol of the mind travelling in the cold regions of space, and a symbol of the brave and generous outcast, pure in heart and cheerful of spirit.
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Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?
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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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