John Maynard Keynes1883–1946The quotations of
John Maynard Keynes
British economist
1883–1946
17 quotes, most often on Economics, Government and Money.
- The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936), Preface
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
National self-sufficiency, New Statesman and Nation (15 July 1933)- The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936), Chapter 24
I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
Letter to Duncan Grant (15 December 1917)A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
The End of Laissez-faire (1926), Ch. 1- The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Ch. III
- Keynes Papers, as quoted in Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes, Vol. 2 (1992), p. 232
- The End of Laissez-faire (1926)
Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians.
“Newton, the Man”; address to the Royal Society Club (1942), read by Geoffrey Keynes at the Newton Tercentenary Celebrations (1946)- A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923), Ch. 3, p. 80
- The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Chapter VI, pp. 235-236
- “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren”, The Nation and Athenaeum (October 1930)
- The New Statesman and Nation, 21 October 1933, published in Collected Writings volume xxviii pages 21-22
- A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923)
- The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Chapter VI, p. 228
