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Ideas shape the course of history.
John Maynard Keynes
History
Ideas
It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
John Maynard Keynes
Progress
Possibility
It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
John Maynard Keynes
Ideas
Evil
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
John Maynard Keynes
History
Mind
Opinion
Study
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
John Maynard Keynes
Pursuit
Reward
Taxes
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
John Maynard Keynes
Thought
People
Dentists
I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
John Maynard Keynes
Government
Work
I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
John Maynard Keynes
Conservative
Man
Nothing
Past
Present
For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
John Maynard Keynes
Gods
Years
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
John Maynard Keynes
Men
Belief
Capitalism
Will
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
John Maynard Keynes
Government
Wealth
Inflation
Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.
John Maynard Keynes
President
Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
John Maynard Keynes
Americans
Opinion
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
John Maynard Keynes
Money
Being
Future
Importance
Present
Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
John Maynard Keynes
Misleading