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Society Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
- No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.
- Money is what fueled the industrial society. But in the informational society, the fuel, the power, is knowledge. One has now come to see a new…
- The income men derive from producing things of slight consequence is of great consequence. The production reflects the low marginal utility of the goods to…
- [The] men of the technostructure are the new and universal priesthood. Their religion is business success; their test of virtue is growth and profit. Their…
- I am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend if the air is too dirty to breathe,…
- When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then…
- The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce.
- Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to satisfy…
- I've long believed alas, that in highly organized industrial societies, capitalist or socialist, the stronger tendency is to converge - that if steel or automobiles…
- The masters thought they were loved until one day one of their favorites farted loudly while serving dinner and the next day was gone. The…
- In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.
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- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
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- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi