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John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devils policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books. - John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions. - John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. - John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. - John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum. - John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man. - John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised. - John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. - John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
Faced with the choice between changing ones mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. - John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
Faced with the choice between changing ones mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. - John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects. - John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. - John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all. - John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. - John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old. - John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong. - John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. - John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability. - John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
In economics, the majority is always wrong. - John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. - John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
In the choice between changing ones mind and proving theres no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof. - John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation. - John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought. - John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought. - John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state. - John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. - John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you dont want to do anything. - John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
Meetings are indispensable when you dont want to do anything. - John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. - John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not. - John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
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