Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man was that age which came to an end in August 1914. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914! — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
In a regime of Free Trade and free economic intercourse it would be of little consequence that iron lay on one side… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency. . .… — 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
