6 John Maynard Keynes Quotes on Ethics

John Maynard Keynes quotes on ethics

1. I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

26. Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

39. I can be influenced by what seems to me to be justice and good sense; but the class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie.

43. For my part I think that capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself it is in many ways extremely objectionable.

46. It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.

50. It is better that a man should tyrannise over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.