The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

Quote by John Maynard Keynes

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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong- especially if one is promptly found out.

There is no harm in being sometimes wrong- especially if one is promptly found out.

The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after...

The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after...

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which...

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which...

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

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

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one...

For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one...

It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.

It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.

The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat...

The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat...

Education is the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent

Education is the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent

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

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

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his...

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his...

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on...

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on...

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

The love of money as a possession - as distinguished from the love of money...

The love of money as a possession - as distinguished from the love of money...

Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.

Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting...

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting...

In the long run we are all dead.

In the long run we are all dead.

I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but...

I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but...

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are...

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are...