Author: John Maynard Keynes

Quotes

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

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

- John Maynard Keynes

In the long run we are all dead.

In the long run we are all dead.

- John Maynard Keynes

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

- John Maynard Keynes

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

- John Maynard Keynes

Ideas shape the course of history.

Ideas shape the course of history.

- John Maynard Keynes

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 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.

- John Maynard Keynes

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

- John Maynard Keynes

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

- John Maynard Keynes

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

- John Maynard Keynes

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