John Maynard Keynes Quotes

English - Economist | June 5, 1883 - April 21, 1946

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

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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

John Maynard Keynes

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

John Maynard Keynes

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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

John Maynard Keynes

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

John Maynard Keynes

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

John Maynard Keynes

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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

John Maynard Keynes

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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.

John Maynard Keynes

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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

John Maynard Keynes

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

John Maynard Keynes

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

John Maynard Keynes

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

John Maynard Keynes

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