John Maynard Keynes Quotes

How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and surely carry the seeds of all human advancement?

John Maynard Keynes

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• The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.

  

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• How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and surely carry the seeds of all human advancement?

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Faults
  • Quality Of Life
  • Human Advancement