Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
John Maynard KeynesOnce we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization.
John Maynard KeynesMorally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.
John Maynard KeynesThe considerations upon which expectations of prospective yields are based are partly existing facts which we can assume to be known more or less for certain, and partly future events which can only be forecasted with more or less confidence.
John Maynard KeynesThe time has already come when each country needs a considered national policy about what size of population, whether larger or smaller than at present or the same, is most expedient. And having settled this policy, we must take steps to carry it into operation. The time may arrive a little later when the community as a whole must pay attention to the innate quality as well as to the mere numbers of its future members.
John Maynard Keynes