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Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little. (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. View quote
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Economics is a very dangerous science. View quote
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Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand. View quote
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older. View quote
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out. View quote
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I should have drunk more champagne. View quote
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I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens. View quote
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Logic, like lyrical poetry, is no employment for the middle-aged. View quote
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The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, - but generally to be obtained at your neighbor's expense. View quote
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[P]erhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors. (John Maynard Keynes)
He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen. View quote
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Adam Smith and Malthus and Ricardo ! There is something about these three figures to evoke more than ordinary sentiments from us their children in the spirit. View quote
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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world. View quote
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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position. View quote
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When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done. View quote
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I can be influenced by what seems to me to be justice and good sense; but the class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie. View quote
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They offer me neither food nor drink - intellectual nor spiritual consolation... [Conservatism] leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal; it conforms to no intellectual standard, it is not safe, or calculated to preserve from the spoilers that degree of civilisation which we have already attained. View quote
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Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis, and achieve immortality by accident, if at all. View quote
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The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile. View quote
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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics. (John Maynard Keynes)
Nothing can be settled in isolation. Every use of our resources is at the expense of an alternative use. View quote
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All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas - and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists. View quote
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In peace time, that is to say, the size of the cake depends on the amount of work done. But in war time the size of the cake is fixed. If we work harder, we can fight better. But we must not consume more. View quote
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The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably. View quote
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