John Maynard Keynes - Social Quotes

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For the Trade Unions such a scheme as this offers great and evident advantages compared with progressive inflation or with a wages tax. In spite of the demands of war, the workers would have secured the enjoyment, sooner or later, of a consumption fully commensurate with their increased effort; whilst family allowances and the cheap ration would actually improve, even during the war, the economic position of the poorer families. We should have succeeded in making the war an opportunity for a positive social improvement. How great a benefit in comparison with a futile attempt to evade a reasonable share of the burden of a just war, ending in a progressive inflation!

John Maynard Keynes
The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

John Maynard Keynes
I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.

John Maynard Keynes
Courage will be forthcoming if tile leaders of opinion in all parties will summon out of tile fatigue and confusion of war enough lucidity of mind to understand for themselves and to explain to tile public what is required; and then propose a plan conceived in a spirit of social justice, a plan which uses a time of general sacrifice, not as an excuse for postponing desirable reforms, but as an opportunity for moving further than we have moved hitherto towards reducing in equalities.

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

John Maynard Keynes
The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.

John Maynard Keynes
I expect to see the State, which is in a position to calculate the marginal efficiency of capital-goods on long views and on the basis of the general social advantage, taking an ever greater responsibility for directly organizing investments.

John Maynard Keynes
To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.

John Maynard Keynes
For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.

John Maynard Keynes