John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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.
Nothing matters except states of mind, chiefly our own.
Ideas shape the course of history.
I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal. (Letter to Duncan Grant)
In the long run, we are all dead.
The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for the reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.