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

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Source : John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

John Maynard Keynes

#Justice Quotes #Political Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“The media like a good fight. They pick out the extremes and they leave out all the people in the middle who believe in both God and evolution.”
“It's cool when people know you more, but I like people to treat me regular when they see me. I take pictures. I don't really be big on people looking at me.”
“It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that, despite all this, this very stratum includes such a great number of valuable and quite genuine men, a fact that outsiders would not so easily guess.”
“Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.”

Source : Robertson Davies (1992). “The Cornish Trilogy”, Penguin Group USA
“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.”

Source : Ernesto Che Guevara, Ernesto Guevara (2000). “Che Guevara Speaks”, Pathfinder Press
“Here's the thing - I mean, I don't act for statues. I really don't. The great thing about winning an award is that it creates opportunities.”
“I do miss Saturday Night Live, that's for sure. There's nothing like it. I just hosted, and I felt I'd only been away for a week.”
“Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.”

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