3 December 2020 John Maynard Keynes A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
3 December 2020 John Maynard Keynes By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
3 December 2020 John Maynard Keynes The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 John Maynard Keynes 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.
3 December 2020 John Maynard Keynes The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
3 December 2020 John Maynard Keynes The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
3 December 2020 John Maynard Keynes Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
3 December 2020 John Maynard Keynes 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.
3 December 2020 John Maynard Keynes Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
