Quotes by John Maynard Keynes
“The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else.”— John Maynard Keynes
“There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.”— John Maynard Keynes
“By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.”— John Maynard Keynes
“The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.”— John Maynard Keynes
“Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all.”— John Maynard Keynes
“The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice, and individual liberty.”— John Maynard Keynes
“It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.”— John Maynard Keynes
“Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.”— John Maynard Keynes
“Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.”— John Maynard Keynes