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John Kenneth Galbraith (Economist)

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
— John Kenneth Galbraith beauty
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 people
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
— John Kenneth Galbraith wisdom
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
— John Kenneth Galbraith alone
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.
— John Kenneth Galbraith knowledge
Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.
— John Kenneth Galbraith people
Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.
— John Kenneth Galbraith power
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
— John Kenneth Galbraith immortality
The modern conservative is engaged in one of mans oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
— John Kenneth Galbraith philosophy
Where humor is concerned there are no standards -- no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.
— John Kenneth Galbraith humor
Theres a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
— John Kenneth Galbraith love
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 mind
Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has said before
— John Kenneth Galbraith writer
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 humor
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
— John Kenneth Galbraith politics
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
— John Kenneth Galbraith politics
Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.
— John Kenneth Galbraith religion
What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure and enhancing caloric intake above any conceivable nutritional requirement
— John Kenneth Galbraith men
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
— John Kenneth Galbraith virtue
Meetings are indispensable when you dont want to do anything.
— John Kenneth Galbraith you
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
— John Kenneth Galbraith war
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 time
Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will
— John Kenneth Galbraith humor
If it is dangerous to suppose that government is always right, it will sooner or later be awkward for public administration if most people suppose that it is always wrong
— John Kenneth Galbraith war
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
— John Kenneth Galbraith food
A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
— John Kenneth Galbraith emotions
The total alteration in underlying circumstances has not been squarely faced, As a result, we are guided, in part, by ideas that are relevant to another world. ... We do many things that are unnecessary, some that are unwise, and a few that are insane.
— John Kenneth Galbraith art
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 mind
In economics, the majority is always wrong.
— John Kenneth Galbraith economics
In economics it is a far, far wiser thing to be right than to be consistent
— John Kenneth Galbraith economics
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
— John Kenneth Galbraith men
The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.
— John Kenneth Galbraith men
There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.
— John Kenneth Galbraith rules
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 books
In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less
— John Kenneth Galbraith wit
The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
— John Kenneth Galbraith money
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
— John Kenneth Galbraith people
There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
— John Kenneth Galbraith truth
Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.
— John Kenneth Galbraith men
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, its just the opposite.
— John Kenneth Galbraith man
War remains the decisive human failure.
— John Kenneth Galbraith war
We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
— John Kenneth Galbraith intellect
We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?
— John Kenneth Galbraith fiction
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
— John Kenneth Galbraith wealth
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
— John Kenneth Galbraith intelligence
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 people
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
— John Kenneth Galbraith freedom
Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.
— John Kenneth Galbraith rich
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
— John Kenneth Galbraith people
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
— John Kenneth Galbraith politics
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
— John Kenneth Galbraith character
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
— John Kenneth Galbraith pain
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
— John Kenneth Galbraith wisdom

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