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Men Quotes by John Maynard Keynes
- It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being…
- Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency. . . Lenin was certainly…
- Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
- It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
- Men will not always die quietly.
- I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
- What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man was that age which came to an end in August 1914.
- The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
- Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
- Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
- Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who…
- How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing…
- Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
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