Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency. . . Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million can diagnose.
John Maynard KeynesIf economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
John Maynard KeynesA study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
John Maynard KeynesIt is the long-term investor...who will in practice come in for the most criticism... For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion
John Maynard Keynes