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States Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
- 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.…
- The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the United States or…
- In Europe and the United States the two decades following the Second World War will for long be remembered as a very good time, the…
- Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857, 1869, 1873, 1907,…
- We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking…
- The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence has occurred because what is convenient has become sacrosanct. Anyone who attacks…
- The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional fiction.
- Poverty" Pitt exclaimed "is no disgrace but it is damned annoying." In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it is a disgrace.
- What was needed was a policy that increased the supply of money available for use and then ensured its use. Then the state of trade…
- More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
- You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
- In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
- It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
- The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and…
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- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States. — Karen Armstrong
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur