Nevertheless, if we contemplate a society with a somewhat stable wage-unit, with national characteristics which determine the propensity to consume and the… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It is the long term investor who will in practice come in for the most criticism. For it is the essence of… — 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
It is the long-term investor...who will in practice come in for the most criticism... For it is the essence of his behavior… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time… — 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
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
Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I do not mean to impugn the social justice and social expediency of the redistribution of incomes aimed at by N.I.R.A. and… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
So it is not an accident that the Nazi lads vent a particular fury against (Einstein). He does truly stand for what… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I feel no shame at being found still owning a share when the bottom of the market comes…I would go much further… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of… — 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
