262 Quotes by John Maynard Keynes

With the breakdown of money economy the practice of international barter is becoming prevalent.

The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.

When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?

Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago.

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

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

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.

It is a mistake to think businessmen are more immoral than politicians.

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.