John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

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• When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.
• 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.…
• Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over…
• When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder...
• In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions of advanced intoxication.…
• Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an…
• There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.
• Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute.…
• The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.
• It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved.
• The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to…
• She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that she does not…
• It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.
• Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the…
• No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.
• There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly inspired, only four…
• People are the common denominator of progress; no improvement is possible with unimproved people.
• In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally…
• Nothing so weakens a government as inflation.
• There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations.

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