Words matter. These are the best John Maynard Keynes Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
In the long run we are all dead.
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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.
I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
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.
Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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.
