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

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

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  2. When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir? – John Maynard Keynes
  3. Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. – John Maynard Keynes
  4. A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. – John Maynard Keynes
  5. The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. – John Maynard Keynes
  6. By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft. – John Maynard Keynes
  7. Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all. – John Maynard Keynes
  8. The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping the old ones. – John Maynard Keynes
  9. If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has. – John Maynard Keynes
  10. In the long run we are all dead. – John Maynard Keynes
  11. Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. – John Maynard Keynes
  12. Individual liberty may be unable to solve every social problem, but collective violence is unable to solve any social problem. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
  13. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. – John Emerich Edward DalbergActon
  14. There are three basic flavours of incentive: economic, social and moral. – Steven D Levitt
  15. Statism is political fashion.Individual liberty is eternal. – AE Samaan
  16. Where faith increases, liberty follows.-The Liberty Book – The Liberty Book
  17. State can become threat to individual life, cause of individual liberty. – Kaushik
  18. We may always enslave ourselves to mankind if we do not clearly differentiate between showing respect to mankind from pleasing mankind – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  19. Day and night – ruthlessly apply key lessons of mankind such as leaving greed, fear and lust to improve the efficiency & effectiveness of life. – VV Rao
  20. There are only two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible. – Alec DouglasHome
  21. Justice is to social justice like a chair to an electric chair. – Janusz KorwinMikke
  22. Justice is to social justice like a chair to an electric chair. – Janusz KorwinMikke
  23. These programs were never about terrorism: they’re about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They’re about power. – Edward Snowden
  24. America – a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. – Herbert Hoover
  25. Now, in the modern money economy everything in the nature of a social-economic occurrence consists in human actions and behaviour. – Oskar Morgenstern
  26. A limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms. – Orrin Woodward
  27. A blind Justice is merely an impartial Justice. True Justice would have eyes in the back of her head and a pair of mismatched shoes. – Eli Ashpence
  28. A justice-thirsty country needs nothing but justice, neither bread nor anything else, only justice! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  29. I’ll take what’s behind door number three did not work too well in the modern justice system, which was all system and no justice. – Kenneth Eade
  30. There are three things I love, three things I spend time with, three things I treat alike: family; friends; and books. – Ogwo David Emenike
  31. There’s a little trick called the Rule of Three: if you use any three of the five senses, it will make the scene immediately three-dimensional. – Diana Gabaldon
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  35. [E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others. – John Rawls
  36. The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited, he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. – John Stuart Mill
  37. I wasnt political in order to be political – Jerzy Grotowski
  38. The American people are fed up…with political posturing.’ True, but also an example of political posturing. – James Taranto
  39. Nice mix of Tory MPs saying this issue shouldn’t be used for petty political pointscoring, & Tory MPs trying to score petty political points. – Andy Zaltzman
  40. As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones. – Steven Pinker

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