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John Maynard Keynes [1883-1946] English

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Economist

John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes CB FBA, was a British economist. His ideas fundamentally changed the theory and practice of macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments.

Future, Men, Money, Death, Education, Finance, Good, Government, History, Inspirational, Power, Religion, Success, War

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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.	Good, Men	101
In the long run we are all dead.	Death	102
The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.	Success, War	103
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.	Education	104
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.	Future, Money	105
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.	Government	106
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.		107
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.	Religion	108
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.	Men, Money	109
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.		110
Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.		111
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.		112
Ideas shape the course of history.	History, Inspirational	113
I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.		114
For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.		115
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.	Finance	116
Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.		117
The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.	Power	118
Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.		119
The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.	Future	120
It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.		121
Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.		122
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.		123
I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.		124
Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.		125
There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.		126
It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.		201

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