Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize - not, I suppose, at once but… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
If I am right in supposing it to be comparatively easy to make capital-goods so abundant that the marginal efficiency of capital… — 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
Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics… — 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
Unlike physics, for example, such parts of the bare bones of economic theory as are expressible in mathematical form are extremely easy… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Thus those reformers, who look for a remedy by creating artificial carrying-costs for the money through the device of requiring legal-tender currency… — 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
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
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a… — 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
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
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
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share
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
Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share
The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share
It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you're found out quickly. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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 Copy Share
Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share
