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John Kenneth Galbraith quotes (18) People are the common denominator of progress. So ... no improvement is possible with unimproved people and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads railroads power plants mills and the other familiar furniture of economic development.... But we are coming to realize ... that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first. John Kenneth Galbraith Category: Easy 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 Category: Comfort You will find that the State is the kind of organization which though it does big things badly does small things badly too. John Kenneth Galbraith Category: State 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 Category: Conservative 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 Category: Humor People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage. John Kenneth Galbraith Category: Risk 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 Category: Gravity Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. John Kenneth Galbraith Category: Modesty Increasingly in recent times we have come first to identify the remedy that is most agreeable most convenient most in accord with major pecuniary or political interest the one that reflects our available faculty for action; then we move from the remedy so available or desired back to a cause to which that remedy is relevant. John Kenneth Galbraith Category: Remedy 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 Category: Mind There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. John Kenneth Galbraith Category: Beauty When people are the least sure they are often the most dogmatic. John Kenneth Galbraith Category: Work Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. John Kenneth Galbraith Category: Committee The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. John Kenneth Galbraith Category: Astrology 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 Category: Wealth Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not. John Kenneth Galbraith Category: Unsorted Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. John Kenneth Galbraith Category: Nothing Politics is not the art of the posssible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. John Kenneth Galbraith Category: Politics |
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