To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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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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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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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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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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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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An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.
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The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.
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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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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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It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.
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