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The duty of "saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.

— John Maynard Keynes The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919)

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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

Essays in Persuasion (1931)

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

Essays in Persuasion (1931)

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.

Essays in Persuasion (1931)

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936)

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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

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The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

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