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John Maynard Keynes9 quotes
But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. — John Maynard Keynes · 1924Owe your banker 1,000 and you are at his mercy; owe him 1 million and the position is reversed. — John Maynard Keynes · 1945Marxian 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 · 1926I 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 · 1926The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind. — John Maynard Keynes · 1919Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand. — John Maynard Keynes · 1919All 9 quotes →