Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith Download Open image ““Men of conservative temperament have long suspected that one thing leads to another.”” — John Kenneth Galbraith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“It is very difficult to convince a person to come out of his conservative shell, unless he feels discomfort there.” — Tarif Naaz Copy Share Image
“it is so inevitable that men will be fools that it is only by another shift of folly that one might not be” — Pascal Copy Share Image
“Be wary of his lies. The world is full of fools eagerly waiting to hear what they long to be told. A devious man… — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share Image
“He who is not liberal with what he has, does but deceive himself when he thinks he would be liberal if he had more” — William Swan Plumer Copy Share Image
“Such things have disappeared perhaps because men do not trust themselves anymore, and when that happens there is nothing left except perhaps to find… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“He urges them to stop believing that they are “conservative” and should therefore tolerate a little the drift into fascism, the better to get… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
“First, many of us are tempted to affirm whatever our favorite political tribe affirms, and deny whatever it denies. Nobody likes to risk losing… — Charles J. Chaput Copy Share Image
“I presume that RATIONAL men will excuse me for endeavouring to persuade them to become more masculine and respectable.” — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Kids, don’t trust any radical under twenty-five. His cock tends to get in the way of his political vision” — Juan Antonio Butler Copy Share Image
“Young men of my type are prone to be impatient of details, and give their loyalties without regard to evidence.” — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Men can labor to make sense out of single steps toward the goal without ever pausing to reflect that the goal itself is ludicrous.” — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare and spending… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Money is what fueled the industrial society. But in the informational society, the fuel, the power, is knowledge. One has now come to see… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
