The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx . — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums… — 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
“But if America recalls for a moment what Europe has meant to her and still means to her, what Europe, the mother… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The time has already come when each country needs a considered national policy about what size of population, whether larger or smaller… — 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
The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future . — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“Our attitude to these criticisms must be determined by our whole moral and emotional reaction to the future of international relations and… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method in investment is to put fairly large sums… — 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
