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It is not the ownership of the instruments of production which it is important for the State to assume. If the State is able to determine the aggregate amount of resources devoted to augmenting the instruments and the

It is not the ownership of the instruments of production which it is important for the State to assume. If the State is able to determine the aggregate amount of resources devoted to augmenting the instruments and the basic rate of reward to those who own them, it will have accomplished all that is necessary. Moreover, the necessary measures of socialization can be introduced gradually and without a break in the general traditions of society.

John Maynard Keynes
Wisdom, Important, Politics
John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.346, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.

John Maynard Keynes
Wisdom, Believe, Income
John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.342, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.

John Maynard Keynes
Ideas, Ties, Errors
John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”, p.15, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

I should have drunk more Champagne.

John Maynard Keynes
Should Have, Drunk, Champagne
"Ben Trovato's Art of Survival". Book by Ben Trovato, p. 196, 2007.

The inhabitant of London could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed, the various products of the whole earth -- he could at the same time and by the same means adventure his wealth in the natural resources and new enterprise of any quarter of the world -- he could secure forthwith, if he wished, cheap and comfortable means of transit to any country or climate without passport or other formality.

John Maynard Keynes
Country, Morning, Peace

The old saying holds. Owe your banker �1000 and you are at his mercy; owe him �1 million and the position is reversed.

John Maynard Keynes
Bankers, Mercy, Old Saying

God has arrived. I met him on the 5:15 train.

John Maynard Keynes
Mets, Train
John Maynard Keynes, after meeting with Wittgenstein at his arrival in Cambridge, in a letter to his wife Lydia Lopokova, January 18, 1929.

He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.

John Maynard Keynes
France, Illusion, Economics
The Economic Consequences of the Peace ch. 3 (1919)

Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians.

John Maynard Keynes
Science, Age, Lasts
John Maynard Keynes (2015). “The Essential Keynes”, p.516, Penguin UK

Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.

John Maynard Keynes
Men, Long, Suffering
John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”, p.127, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.

John Maynard Keynes
President, Odysseus, Wiser
'The Economic Consequences of the Peace' (1919) ch. 3 (on Woodrow Wilson)

I am trying to re-shape and improve my central position.

John Maynard Keynes
Trying, Shapes, Position
John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: The general theory and after: pt. 1, Preparation”

I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens.

John Maynard Keynes
Humble, Heaven, Vastness
John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in biography”

If we aim deliberately at the impoverishment of Central Europe, vengeance, I dare predict, will not limp.

John Maynard Keynes
Europe, Vengeance, Dare
John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”, p.136, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes.

John Maynard Keynes
Writing, Autumn, Fortune
John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace: The Economist”, p.154, 北戴河出版

I can't remember my telephone number, but I know it was in the high numbers.

John Maynard Keynes
Numbers, Telephones, Remember

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