John Maynard Keynes
"The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist."
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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 commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist."
John Maynard Keynes
"Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all."
John Maynard Keynes
"The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods."
John Maynard Keynes
"If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want."
John Maynard Keynes
"The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones."
John Maynard Keynes
"The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society."
John Maynard Keynes
"How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?"
John Maynard Keynes
"Our attitude to these criticisms must be determined by our whole moral and emotional reaction to the future of international relations and the Peace of the World."
John Maynard Keynes
"A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind."
John Maynard Keynes
"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone."
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
"When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?"
John Maynard Keynes
"Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent."
John Maynard Keynes
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