Marxian Socialism must always remain a portent to the historians of opinion how a doctrine so illogical and so dull can have exercised so powerful and enduring an influence over the minds of men, and, through them, the events of history.
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Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was 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.... Lenin was certainly right.John Maynard, Baron Keynes of Tilton
The important thing for government is not to do things which individuals are doing already and to do them a little better or a little worse but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
John Maynard, Baron Keynes of Tilton
His Newtons peculiar gift was the power of holding continuously in his mind a purely mental problem until he had seen through it.
John Maynard, Baron Keynes of Tilton
The engine which drives Enterprise is not Thrift, but Profit.
John Maynard, Baron Keynes of Tilton
It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and that there is no direct relation between the truth of a proposition and its probability. Probability begins and ends with probability.
John Maynard, Baron Keynes of Tilton
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