“ The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society. John Maynard Keynes
“ How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult? John Maynard Keynes
“ Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older. John Maynard Keynes
“ In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again. John Maynard Keynes
“ The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. John Maynard Keynes
“ The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future. John Maynard Keynes
“ Our attitude to these criticisms must be determined by our whole moral and emotional reaction to the future of international relations and the Peace of the World. John Maynard Keynes
“ The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping the old ones. John Maynard Keynes
“ If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has. 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. John Maynard Keynes
“ The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. John Maynard Keynes
“ A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. John Maynard Keynes
“ Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to lose sight of the complexities and inter… John Maynard Keynes
“ The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future. John Maynard Keynes
“ If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want. John Maynard Keynes
“ Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all. John Maynard Keynes
“ The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not… John Maynard Keynes
