John Maynard Keynes : (5) " For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. " - John Maynard Keynes " I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal. " - John Maynard Keynes " Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older. " - 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 " Ideas shape the course of history. " - John Maynard Keynes