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.

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

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

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

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

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.

In the long run we are all dead.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.