They offer me neither food nor drink - intellectual nor spiritual consolation... [Conservatism] leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal; it conforms to no intellectual standard, it is not safe, or calculated to preserve from the spoilers that degree of civilization which we have already attained.
John Maynard KeynesIt is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.
John Maynard KeynesHe had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.
John Maynard KeynesThe decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.
John Maynard Keynes