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.
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John Maynard Keynes
It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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John Maynard Keynes
When the facts change, I change my mind - what do you do, sir?
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John Maynard Keynes
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
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John Maynard Keynes
The commonest virtues of the individual are often lacking in the spokesmen of nations; a statesman representing not himself but his country may prove, without incurring excessive blame—­as history often records—­vindictive, perfidious, and egotistic.
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John Maynard Keynes
There is a danger of expecting the results of the future to be predicted from the past.
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John Maynard Keynes
By a continuing 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.
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