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Economic literature

But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

John Maynard Keynes

1924

★ 6.9

Owe your banker 1,000 and you are at his mercy; owe him 1 million and the position is reversed.

John Maynard Keynes

1945

★ 4.5

No man ever repented that he arose from the table sober, healthful, and with his wits about him.

The House of Feasting · 1653

★ 3.5

Essay · Economic literature

Marxian socialism must always remain a portent to the historians of opinion—how a doctrine so illogical and so dull can have exercised so powerful and enduring an influence over the minds of men and, through them, the events of history.

John Maynard Keynes

The End of Laissez-faire · 1926

★ 3.5

Essay · Economic literature

I believe that in many cases the ideal size for the unit of control and organisation lies somewhere between the individual and the modern State. I suggest, therefore, that progress lies in the growth and the recognition of semi-autonomous bodies within the State.

John Maynard Keynes

The End of Laissez-faire · 1926

★ 2.7

Necessity is the mother of invention.

1694

★ 1.9

Historical literature

Gift, like genius, I often think, only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.

1879

★ 1.9

Economic literature

The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.

John Maynard Keynes

1919

★ 1.9

Economic literature

Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.

John Maynard Keynes

1919

★ 1.9

Essay · Economic literature

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

John Maynard Keynes

1926

★ 1.9

Essay · Economic literature

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals... The love of money as a possession—as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life—will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease.

John Maynard Keynes

1930

★ 1.9

Economic literature

Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.

John Maynard Keynes

The Economic Consequences of the Peace · 1919

★ 1.1