Famous Quotes by John Maynard Keynes

Below are famous quotes by John Maynard Keynes - English economist (1883 - 1946).

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

In the long run we are all dead.

In the long run, we are all dead.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

The avoidance of taxes is the only pursuit that carries any reward.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.

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