War Quote by Tony Judt

“As Keynes wrote, with devastating understatement, ‘The age of economic internationalism was not particularly successful in avoiding war.”

— Pankaj Mishra

Keynes, far from being a wholehearted lover of freedom, viewed with some sympathy the fascist and Communist ‘experiments’ of the 1930s.

— Ralph Raico

Fascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes, despite the latter's prominent position as a Liberal. In fact, Mr. Keynes' excellent little book, The End…

— Benito Mussolini

“Keynes declared capitalism the best system ever devised to achieve a civilized economic society. But he recognized in it two major faults—“its failure to…

— Robert B. Reich

There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian.

— Murray Rothbard

Attempting mischievous and salutary irritation of his peers ... Keynes may only succeed in becoming an academic idol of our worst cranks and charlatans…

— Henry Calvert Simons

I do not regard the Keynesian revolution as a great intellectual triumph. On the contrary, it was a tragedy because it came so late.…

— Joan Robinson

“At present", Keynes said in 1926, "everything is politics, and nothing policies.”

— Richard Davenport-Hines

“It is a fact that any rich man, unless he is a Jew, has less to fear from Fascism than from either Communism or…

— George Orwell

“Keynes concluded that citizens both rich and poor would have to be led gradually out of capitalism, a base and repugnant system of morals.…

— David Roth Singerman