Disillusion Quote by John Maynard Keynes Download Open image “He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.” — John Maynard Keynes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disillusion Economics France Frenchmen Illusion Including Mankind
The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“But his main character flaw was that of so many French revolutionaries: a zeal for human rights so self-righteous that it translated into intolerance… — Tom Reiss Copy Share Image
“he beheld the grand figure of the people emerge from the Revolution, and the grand figure of France spring forth from the Empire. He… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“If there were no illusions, there would bo no disillusionment. But then one would have no fond memories either, with which fortify oneself against… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“It was due to two illusions. Both illusions involve the human” — Peter Francis Dziuban Copy Share Image
“A great human philosopher nearly let our secret out when he said that where virtue is concerned, "Experience is the mother of illusion.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“He came down from the North to Paris with a mind like Aristotle's and a form like mortal sin. We shattered the Commandments on… — James Goldman 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
“Personal disillusionment accompanied by self-pity and self-loathing are the Achilles’ heel of modern humankind, representing the weakness of the human spirit.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them? — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it… — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie Copy Share Image
In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion. — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism -- can we… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Marriage and fatherhood heighten the disillusion that we all think we are born handy. We confidently believe that we can fix things around the… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
