27 Quotations by John Maynard Keynes
- 1. A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
- 2. Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opini ...
- 3. Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of thi ...
- 4. Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will s ...
- 5. Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
- 6. For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul a ...
- 7. I do not know which makes a man more conservative -- to know nothing but the present, or nothing but ...
- 8. I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
- 9. Ideas shape the course of history.
- 10. If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with ...
- 11. In the long run, we are all dead.
- 12. It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow citizens and whi ...
- 13. It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
- 14. Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the ...
- 15. Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
- 16. Nothing matters except states of mind, chiefly our own.
- 17. Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.
- 18. The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
- 19. The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of ...
- 20. The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of ...
John Maynard Keynes Quotes by Power Quotations
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