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Should government refrain from...

Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.

John Maynard Keynes 231 quotes

Capitalism is the extraordinar...

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 231 quotes

One blames politicians, not fo...

One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli.

John Maynard Keynes 231 quotes

I wish I'd drunk more champagn...

I wish I'd drunk more champagne.

John Maynard Keynes 231 quotes

It is better that a man should...

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

John Maynard Keynes 231 quotes

This long run is a misleading ...

This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.

John Maynard Keynes 231 quotes

But my lord, when we addressed...

But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn't you argue the other side?' He said, 'That's true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?

John Maynard Keynes 231 quotes

The engine which drives enterp...

The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.

John Maynard Keynes 231 quotes

... a speculator is one who ru...

... a speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.

John Maynard Keynes 231 quotes

It would not be foolish to con...

It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.

John Maynard Keynes 231 quotes

Lenin is said to have declared...

Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency. . . Lenin was certainly right. 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 can diagnose.

John Maynard Keynes 231 quotes

[T]he theory of output as a wh...

[T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to the conditions of a totalitarian state, than is the theory of production and distribution of a given output produced under the conditions of free competition and a large measure of laissez-faire.

John Maynard Keynes 231 quotes

Government machinery has been ...

Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.

John Maynard Keynes 231 quotes

It is preferable to regard lab...

It is preferable to regard labour, including, of course, the personal services of the entrepreneur, and his assistants, as the sole factor of production, operating in a given environment of technique, natural resources, capital equipment and effective demand. This is why we have been able to take labour as the sole physical unit which we require in our economic system, apart from units of money and of time.

John Maynard Keynes 231 quotes

For my own part, I believe tha...

For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.

John Maynard Keynes 231 quotes

I see, therefore, the rentier ...

I see, therefore, the rentier aspect of capitalism as a transitional phase which will disappear when it has done its work. And with the disappearance of its rentier aspect much else in it besides will suffer a sea-change. It will be, moreover, a great advantage of the order of events which I am advocating, that the euthanasia of the rentier, of the functionless investor, will be nothing sudden, merely a gradual but prolonged continuance of what we have seen recently in Great Britain, and will need no revolution.

John Maynard Keynes 231 quotes

It is not the ownership of the...

It is not the ownership of the instruments of production which it is important for the State to assume. If the State is able to determine the aggregate amount of resources devoted to augmenting the instruments and the basic rate of reward to those who own them, it will have accomplished all that is necessary. Moreover, the necessary measures of socialization can be introduced gradually and without a break in the general traditions of society.

John Maynard Keynes 231 quotes

The immense accumulations of f...

The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.

John Maynard Keynes 231 quotes

In this autumn of 1919, in whi...

In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes.

John Maynard Keynes 231 quotes

As time goes on, I get more an...

As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.

John Maynard Keynes 231 quotes

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