The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping the old ones.” — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel - these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It's not bringing in the new ideas that's so hard; it's getting rid of the old ones. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you're found out quickly. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
