John Maynard Keynes

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"The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward."

John Maynard Keynes

"Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking."

John Maynard Keynes

"To those who sweat for their daily bread leisure is a longed-for sweet until they get it."

John Maynard Keynes

"Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking."

John Maynard Keynes

"A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923), ch. 3 It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and that there is no direct relation between the truth of a proposition and its probability. Probability begins and ends with probability."

John Maynard Keynes

"The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds."

John Maynard Keynes

"77 In the long run, we are all dead."

John Maynard Keynes

"By a continuous process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method, they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some....The process engages all of the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner that not one man in a million can diagnose."

John Maynard Keynes

"Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent."

John Maynard Keynes

"In the long run we are all dead."

John Maynard Keynes

"When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?"

John Maynard Keynes

"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

"To those who sweat for their daily bread leisure is a longed-for sweet until they get it."

John Maynard Keynes

"Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking."

John Maynard Keynes

"In the long run, we are all dead."

John Maynard Keynes

"It is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand."

John Maynard Keynes

"The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds."

John Maynard Keynes

"To those who sweat for their daily bread leisure is a longed-for sweet until they get it."

John Maynard Keynes

"Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent."

John Maynard Keynes

"77 In the long run, we are all dead."

John Maynard Keynes

"Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking."

John Maynard Keynes

"By a continuous process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method, they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some....The process engages all of the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner that not one man in a million can diagnose."

John Maynard Keynes

"A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923), ch. 3 It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and that there is no direct relation between the truth of a proposition and its probability. Probability begins and ends with probability."

John Maynard Keynes

"In the long run we are all dead."

John Maynard Keynes

"To those who sweat for their daily bread leisure is a longed-for sweet until they get it."

John Maynard Keynes