Quotes of John Maynard Keynes - somelinesforyou

“ Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ Ideas shape the course of history. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir? ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems — the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ Inflation: Everyone's illusion of wealth. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ Regarded as a means, (the businessman) is tolerable; as an end, he is not so satisfactory. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ Regarded as a means, (the businessman) is tolerable; as an end, he is not so satisfactory. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ I do not know which makes a man more conservative — to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens…Lenin was certainly right. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens…Lenin was certainly right. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ I do not know which makes a man more conservative — to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ I do not know which makes a man more conservative — to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. ”

- John Maynard Keynes
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