71 Quotations by John Kenneth Galbraith
- 1. A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
- 2. All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront u ...
- 3. All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the v ...
- 4. Among all the world's races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most pron ...
- 5. An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and ...
- 6. Any consideration of the life and larger social existence of the modern corporate man begins and als ...
- 7. By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small m ...
- 8. Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every ...
- 9. Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, se ...
- 10. Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an Am ...
- 11. Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
- 12. Every community needs a great many communal services. By rewarding such work with honor and esteem, ...
- 13. Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must ...
- 14. If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
- 15. In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, ...
- 16. In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
- 17. In economics the majority is always wrong.
- 18. In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for res ...
- 19. In the choice between changing one's mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy ...
- 20. In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
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