"By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens."
― John Maynard Keynes
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Government
More From John Maynard Keynes
- "The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn’t deliver the goods."
- "The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future."
- "Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone."
More In Government
- "I love talking about clothes with women; it’s like a code because women dress for women."― Mindy Kaling
- "We don’t walk. We overeat because we’ve made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the ‘we’ is all of us. It’s not the government. It’s all of us doing this together."― Mehmet Oz
- "Government is essentially immoral."― Herbert Spencer