John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
Under capitalism, man exploits man; while under socialism just the reverse is true.
2966 Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.
3381 Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
3235 Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.
4718 Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
1500 But there is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple.
4993 The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness... &
... Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
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2403 One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read.
4269 I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.
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