Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
John Maynard KeynesA sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.
John Maynard KeynesIf you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
John Maynard KeynesThe friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
John Maynard KeynesMost, probably, of our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be drawn out over many days to come, can only be taken as the result of animal spirits-a spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction, and not as the outcome of a weighted average of quantitative benefits multiplied by quantitative probabilities.
John Maynard Keynes