John Maynard Keynes Quotes & Quotations

John Maynard Keynes Quotes

» I do not know which makes a man more conservative -- to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

» If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

» 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.

» Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be...

» The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

» In the long run we are all dead.

» Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

» For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.

» It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

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