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John Kenneth Galbraith Inspirational Quotes (217)

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The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.
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Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked.
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Things that come from the private sector are in abundant supply things that depend on the public sector are widely a problem. We're a world, as I said in The Affluent Society, of filthy streets and clean houses, poor schools and expensive television.
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The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional fiction.
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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 them. But the case cannot stand if it is the process of satisfying wants that create the wants.
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I've become accustomed to supporting politicians who are more conservative than I am. This is not entirely a surprise.
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The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.
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Emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends.
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The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce.
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There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy of judgement and intuition. . .
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Those days [of the Vietnam War] you couldn't get on a bus going to the South without expecting a riot over something or the other. All of that has disappeared thanks to Lyndon Johnson.
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Educators have yet to realize how deeply the industrial system is dependent upon them.
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The notion that you would initiate a new product without preparing the way by persuasion and advertising and salesmanship is fantastic. It's an integral part of the system.
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I've been writing a book called The Economics of Innocent Fraud. I published part of it already in The Progressive (Free Market Fraud, January 1999). But I've been interrupted these last few months. It deals with all of the things we do, in an innocent way, to cover up the truth.
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Almost every aspect of its (Federal Reserve) history should be approached with a discriminating disregard for what is commonly taught or believed.
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The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.
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It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.
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Complexity and obscurity have professional value - they are the academic equivalents of apprenticeship rules in the building trades. They exclude the outsiders, keep down the competition, preserve the image of a privileged or priestly class. The man who makes things clear is a scab. He is criticized less for his clarity than for his treachery.
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A [New Yorker ] is what it has always been. It combines those who pursue the truth with those who pursue the rewards of orthodoxy and those who pursue what is comfortable to the rich.
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The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.
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In recent times no problem has been more puzzling to thoughtful people than why, in a troubled world, we make such poor use of our affluence.
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One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.
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Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.
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Economists are generally negligent of their heroes.
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