Capitalism Quotes by John Maynard Keynes

Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization.

— John Maynard Keynes

If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at…

— John Maynard Keynes

There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.

— John Maynard Keynes

It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true,…

— John Maynard Keynes

Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case

— John Maynard Keynes

In the long run we are all dead.

— John Maynard Keynes

The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas

— John Maynard Keynes

It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you're found out quickly.

— John Maynard Keynes

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall…

— John Maynard Keynes

Of the maxims of orthodox finance none, surely, is more anti-social than the fetish of liquidity, the doctrine of that it is a positive…

— John Maynard Keynes

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable…

— John Maynard Keynes

I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.

— 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

Economics is a very dangerous science.

— John Maynard Keynes

Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.

— John Maynard Keynes