“The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.”
― John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
“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 (1883-1946)
“If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.”
― John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
“It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.”
― John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
“Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.”
― John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
“The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.”
― John Maynard Keynes
“When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done”
― John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
“Ideas shape the course of history.”
― John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.”
― John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
"Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our society."
— John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
"It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain."
— John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
“about these matters there is no scientific basis on which to form any calculable probability whatsoever. We simply do not know.”
— John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
“I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.”
― John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
”Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all."
― John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
”“There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of Society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.”
― John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)