Zitate von John Maynard Keynes

Allgemeine Theorie der Beschäftigung, des Zinses und des Geldes, 1936, Übersetzer Fritz Waeger, S. 133.
Original engl.: "Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally." - The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money", Chapter 12, V
Allgemeine Theorie der Beschäftigung, des Zinses und des Geldes

Allgemeine Theorie der Beschäftigung, des Zinses und des Geldes, 1936, Übersetzer Fritz Waeger, Vorwort zur englischen Ausgabe, S. VII
Original engl.: "The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones," - The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, 1935, Preface books.google http://books.google.de/books?hl=de&id=GeN8AAAAQBAJ&q=%22in+escaping%22
Allgemeine Theorie der Beschäftigung, des Zinses und des Geldes

Original engl.: "Capitalism is […] as J. M Keynes used to put it, “the astonishing belief that the nastiest motives of the nastiest men somehow or other work for the best results in the best of all possible worlds." - George Schuster, Christianity and human relations in industry. Epworth Press 1951, p. 109, s. auch /stevecotler.com http://stevecotler.com/tales/2009/07/07/keynes-nastiest-wickedest-capitalism/
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Ein Traktat über Währungsreform. Übersetzt von Ernst Kocherthaler. Duncker & Humblot, 1924. Seite 83 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=YO8iAQAAMAAJ&q=volkswirtschaft
Original engl.: "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." - A Tract on Monetary Reform. Macmillan and Co. 1923. p. 80

Allgemeine Theorie der Beschäftigung, des Zinses und des Geldes, Berlin 1935, S. 299, 300
Original engl.: "Gesell, drawing to himself the semi-religious fervour which had formerly centred round Henry George, became the revered prophet of a cult with many thousand disciples throughout the world. […] I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx. The preface to "The Natural Economic Order" will indicate to the reader, if he will refer to it, the moral quality of Gesell. The answer to Marxism is, I think, to be found along the lines of this preface." - General Theorie of Employment, Money and Interest. Book VI. Chapter 23 Notes on Mercantilism, the Usury Laws, Stamped Money and Theories of Under-Consumption. VI.
Allgemeine Theorie der Beschäftigung, des Zinses und des Geldes

Allgemeine Theorie der Beschäftigung, des Zinses und des Geldes, 1936, S. 296
Original engl.: "The extraordinary achievement of the classical theory was to overcome the beliefs of the "natural man" and, at the same time, to be wrong." - The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.
Allgemeine Theorie der Beschäftigung, des Zinses und des Geldes

Allgemeine Theorie der Beschäftigung, des Zinses und des Geldes, 1936, S. 295
Original engl.: "The part played by orthodox economists, whose common sense has been insufficient to check their faulty logic, has been disastrous to the latest act." - books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=GeN8AAAAQBAJ&pg=PT264&dq=orthodox
Allgemeine Theorie der Beschäftigung, des Zinses und des Geldes

"First Annual Report of the Arts Council (1945-1946)" zitiert von Andreas Weber in: Biokapital, Die Versöhnung von Ökonomie, Natur und Menschlichkeit, Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 3827007925, Seite 7 - und von Hans H. Hinterhuber et. al. in: Servant leadership : Prinzipien dienender Unternehmensführung - Berlin : Erich Schmidt 2007. (Kolleg für Leadership und Management ; Band 3), ISBN 978-3-503-09785-2 - Seite 18 http://www.greenleafcenter.de/images/documenten/ESV_servant_leadership_leseprobe.pdf
Original engl.: "The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems — the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behaviour and religion. - "First Annual Report of the Arts Council (1945-1946)"

Aufsatz: "Ökonomische Perspektiven für unsere Enkel", zitiert von Andreas Weber in: Biokapital, Die Versöhnung von Ökonomie, Natur und Menschlichkeit, Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 3827007925, Seite 78
Original engl.: "Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. For only they can lead us out of the tunnel of economic necessity into daylight." - Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren. 1930. http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf

Allgemeine Theorie der Beschäftigung, des Zinses und des Geldes, 1936, S. 161 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=2gGQ7osT6BwC&pg=PA162&dq=Ricardo
Original engl.: "Ricardo offers us the supreme intellectual achievement, unattainable by weaker spirits, of adopting a hypothetical world remote from experiences as though it were the world of experience and then living in it consistently." - General Theorie of Employment, Money and Interest. books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=kqJdAAAAIAAJ&q=unattainable
Allgemeine Theorie der Beschäftigung, des Zinses und des Geldes

Allgemeine Theorie der Beschäftigung, des Zinses und des Geldes",ins Dt. übers. von Fritz Waeger. 6. Aufl. Berlin: Duncker und Humblot 1935, S. 323.
Original engl.: "the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else." - The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. Chapter 24, V. marxists.org http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/keynes/general-theory/ch24.htm
Allgemeine Theorie der Beschäftigung, des Zinses und des Geldes

Jason Zweig: Keynes: He Didn’t Say Half of What He Said. Or Did He? http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2011/02/11/keynes-he-didnt-say-half-of-what-he-said-or-did-he/
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Quelle: The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936), Ch. 24 "Concluding Notes" p. 383-384
Kontext: The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas. Not, indeed, immediately, but after a certain interval; for in the field of economic and political philosophy there are not many who are influenced by new theories after they are twenty-five or thirty years of age, so that the ideas which civil servants and politicians and even agitators apply to current events are not likely to be the newest. But, soon or late, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Reply to a criticism during the Great Depression of having changed his position on monetary policy, as quoted in "The Keynes Centenary" by Paul Samuelson, in The Economist Vol. 287 (June 1983), p. 19; later in The Collected Scientific Papers of Paul Samuelson, Volume 5 (1986), p. 275; also in Understanding Political Development: an Analytic Study (1987) by Myron Weiner, Samuel P. Huntington and Gabriel Abraham Almond, p. xxiv; this has also been paraphrased as "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?"
Attributed

Not attributed to Keynes until after his death. The original quote comes from Carveth Read and is:
It is better to be vaguely right than exactly wrong.
Logic, deductive and inductive (1898), p. 351 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18440/18440-h/18440-h.htm#Page_351
Misattributed

Last Words, as quoted in Ben Trovato's Art of Survival (2007) by Ben Trovato, p. 196
Attributed

Quelle: Essays In Biography (1933), Alfred Marshall, p. 212

Quelle: Essays In Biography (1933), Preface, p. viii
Kontext: I have sought with some touches of detail to bring out the solidarity and historical continuity of the High Intelligentsia of England, who have built up the foundations of our thought in the two and a half centuries, since Locke, in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding, wrote the first modern English book. I relate below the amazing progeny of Sir George Villiers. But the lineage of the High Intelligentsia is hardly less interbred and spiritually inter-mixed. Let the Villiers Connection fascinate the monarch or the mob and rule, or seem to rule, passing events. There is also a pride of sentiment to claim spiritual kinship with the Locke Connection and that long English line, intellectually and humanly linked with one another, to which the names in my second section belong. If not the wisest, yet the most truthful of men. If not the most personable, yet the queerest and sweetest. If not the most practical, yet of the purest public conscience. If not of high artistic genius, yet the most solid and sincere accomplishment within many of the fields which are ranged by the human mind.