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Quotation from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes
“If we aim deliberately at the impoverishment of Central Europe, vengeance, I dare predict, will not limp”
The Economic Consequences of the Peace, Chapter VII: Remedies (Harcourt, Brace and Howe (New York, 1920), Project Gutenberg #15776)
Keynes warns that a peace designed to keep Germany poor will bring a new and worse catastrophe to Europe.
Citation: "If we aim deliberately at the impoverishment of Central Europe, vengeance, I dare predict, will not limp" — John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, Chapter VII: Remedies (Harcourt, Brace and Howe (New York, 1920), Project Gutenberg #15776). (id keynes-the-economic-consequences-of-the-peace-q7)
Portrait: Keynes 1933, Unknown photographer, Public domain.
