Economists Keynes Quotes

#1. He searched for words to poison the shaft of his disdain.

Margaret Landon

#2. Experiment and reason, tempered by intuition, were to him preferable to solid plodding in the well-trodden paths of experience.

Richard Davenport-Hines

#3. So what have Keynes's 'madmen in authority' done with the ideas they inherited from defunct economists? They have set about dismantling the properly economic powers and initiatives of the state.

Tony Judt

#4. Keynes eliminated economic theory's ancient role as spoilsport for inflationist and statist schemes, leading a new generation of economists on to academic power and to political pelf and privilege.

Murray Rothbard

#5. So, basically if we keep trying to save the country and maybe the world from a bunch of murderous assholes with outer space weapons, then we're the bad guys?"
"In a nutshell."
"Then, hey ... let's be bad guys.

Jonathan Maberry

#6. The science of public happiness was how Keynes saw his work as an economist.

Richard Davenport-Hines

#7. Nobody had faith in me when I got here except my team. That's what carried me through all the transition problems and adjustments and everything.

Pau Gasol

#8. All sons should write down every word of what their fathers have to say to them.

Abraham Verghese

#9. All cruelty springs from weakness.

Seneca.

#10. I can think of other forms of worship than loving you, but none that make me feel so fulfilled ...

John Geddes

#11. He never sat an examination in economics: his knowledge came from pondering problems and discussing them as much as from book-learning.

Richard Davenport-Hines

#12. There's no more film; now everything's digital. I welcome this. It's fantastic for me to have a new chance.

Bernardo Bertolucci

#13. What is so important is that you play for the artist and for the record and for the song ... everything else falls into place ... my solo has to be a complement to the singer and the song ...

James Burton

#14. If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

John Maynard Keynes

#15. Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis , and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.

John Maynard Keynes

#16. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.

John Maynard Keynes

#17. I don't advise a haircut, man. All hairdressers are in the employment of the government. Hairs are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos, and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight.

Bruce Robinson

#18. If you put two economists xin a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions.

Winston Churchill

#19. The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by.

Robert Breault