"There is a common tendency to ignore the……" — John Kenneth Galbraith
"There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate."
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286 Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith has 286 quotes on this site.
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When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.
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People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when…
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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his…
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When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder...
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In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often…
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Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A…
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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or…
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The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.
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It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to…
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The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then,…
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She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret…
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It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I…
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
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The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
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She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he…
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
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