Quotes by John Maynard Keynes

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

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

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

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

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

Ideas shape the course of history.

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

Ideas shape the course of history.