John Maynard Keynes Quotes

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.
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.
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
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.
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.
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John Maynard Keynes
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05 June, 1883
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21 April, 1946
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