{"author":"John Maynard Keynes","author_id":"John+Maynard+Keynes","total_quotes":37,"quotes":[{"text":"If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.","author":"John Maynard Keynes","tags":["banking","debt","economics"],"id":587,"author_id":"John+Maynard+Keynes"},{"text":"Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.","author":"John Maynard Keynes","tags":["love","men","construction "],"id":38143,"author_id":"John+Maynard+Keynes"},{"text":"The war has ended with every one owing every one else immense sums of money. Germany owes a large sum to the Allies, the Allies owe a large sum to Great Britain, and Great Britain owes a large sum to the United States. The holders of war loan in every country are owed a large sum by the States, and the States in its turn is owed a large sum by these and other taxpayers. The whole position is in the highest degree artificial, misleading, and vexatious. We shall never be able to move again, unless we can free our limbs from these paper shackles.","author":"John Maynard Keynes","tags":["economics","keynes","peace","world-war-i"],"id":41078,"author_id":"John+Maynard+Keynes"},{"text":"Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago.","author":"John Maynard Keynes","tags":["isaac-newton","magic","science"],"id":41575,"author_id":"John+Maynard+Keynes"},{"text":"When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?","author":"John Maynard Keynes","tags":["humility","openness"],"id":65129,"author_id":"John+Maynard+Keynes"},{"text":"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.","author":"John Maynard Keynes","tags":["ideas","disruptive","may "],"id":72672,"author_id":"John+Maynard+Keynes"},{"text":"By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.","author":"John Maynard Keynes","tags":["banking","corruption","economics","government"],"id":86638,"author_id":"John+Maynard+Keynes"},{"text":"By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.","author":"John Maynard Keynes","tags":["process","important","wealth "],"id":97245,"author_id":"John+Maynard+Keynes"},{"text":"Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all.","author":"John Maynard Keynes","tags":["capitalism","greed"],"id":114233,"author_id":"John+Maynard+Keynes"},{"text":"If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.","author":"John Maynard Keynes","tags":["optimism"],"id":125233,"author_id":"John+Maynard+Keynes"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":37,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}