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Thinking Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
- 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…
- There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging…
- Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.
- The notion of a formal structure of command must be abandoned. It is more useful to think of the mature corporation as a series of…
- The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
- Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
- The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.
- Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a…
- We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.
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