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Death2 quotes
But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. — John Maynard Keynes · 1924Pale death, the grand physician, cures all pain;
The dead rest well who lived for joys in vain. — John Clare · 1841Economics2 quotes
But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. — John Maynard Keynes · 1924Lenin 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 · 1919Past and present2 quotes
The present is the funeral of the past,
And man the living sepulchre of life. — John Clare · 1845The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. — L.P. Hartley · 1953Political theory2 quotes
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 · 1926Lenin 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 · 1919Abuses of patriotism1 quote
The love of our country, as the term has usually been understood, has too often been found to be one of those specious illusions which are employed by impostors for the purpose of rendering the multitude the blind instruments of their crooked designs. — William Godwin · 1793Adaptability1 quote
The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind. — John Maynard Keynes · 1919Advertising and marketing1 quote
A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, and such a society is a house built upon sand. — Dorothy L. Sayers · 1947Argument from design1 quote
Suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place... The inference, we think, is inevitable; that the watch must have had a maker, that there must have existed, at some time and at some place or other, an artificer or artificers, who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use. — William Paley · 1802Capitalism1 quote
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 · 1930Causes of crime1 quote
Necessity hath no law. — Oliver Cromwell · 1654Civilization1 quote
Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand. — John Maynard Keynes · 1919Consumerism1 quote
A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, and such a society is a house built upon sand. — Dorothy L. Sayers · 1947Corrosive effects of wealth1 quote
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 · 1930Creativity1 quote
Necessity is the mother of invention. — Richard Franck · 1694Crime1 quote
Necessity hath no law. — Oliver Cromwell · 1654Death as a blessing1 quote
Pale death, the grand physician, cures all pain;
The dead rest well who lived for joys in vain. — John Clare · 1841Debt1 quote
Owe your banker 1,000 and you are at his mercy; owe him 1 million and the position is reversed. — John Maynard Keynes · 1945Desperation1 quote
Necessity hath no law. — Oliver Cromwell · 1654Drinking alcohol1 quote
No man ever repented that he arose from the table sober, healthful, and with his wits about him. — Jeremy Taylor · 1653Economic theory1 quote
But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. — John Maynard Keynes · 1924Education1 quote
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. — John Maynard Keynes · 1926Education as liberation1 quote
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. — John Maynard Keynes · 1926Effects of the past1 quote
The present is the funeral of the past,
And man the living sepulchre of life. — John Clare · 1845Finance1 quote
Owe your banker 1,000 and you are at his mercy; owe him 1 million and the position is reversed. — John Maynard Keynes · 1945Friends1 quote
Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men commend,
What trusty treasure in the world can countervail a friend? — Nicholas Grimald · 1557Friendship1 quote
Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men commend,
What trusty treasure in the world can countervail a friend? — Nicholas Grimald · 1557Gender relations1 quote
Perhaps it is no wonder that the women were first at the Cradle and last at the Cross. They had never known a man like this Man-there has never been such another... Who never made arch jokes about them, never treated them either as "The women, God help us", or "The ladies, God bless them!" — Dorothy L. Sayers · 1946Getting drunk1 quote
No man ever repented that he arose from the table sober, healthful, and with his wits about him. — Jeremy Taylor · 1653Government1 quote
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 · 1926History1 quote
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. — John Maynard Keynes · 1926