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John Kenneth Galbraith Inspirational Quotes (217)

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People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.
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Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.
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Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings.
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More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
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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 greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.
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Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.
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There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly inspired, only four revisions are needed.
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The family which takes it mauve and cerise, air conditioned, power-steered, and power braked automobile out for a tour passes through cities that are badly paved, made hideous by litter, blighted buildings, billboards, and posts for wires that should long since have been put underground.
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Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.
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This is a world inhabited not by people who have to be persuaded to believe but by people who want an excuse to believe.
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Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
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Ralph [ Nader] is an old friend of mine, and he does a useful job in displaying a position.
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At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
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Increasingly in recent times we have come first to identify the remedy that is most agreeable, most convenient, most in accord with major pecuniary or political interest, the one that reflects our available faculty for action then we move from the remedy so available or desired back to a cause to which that remedy is relevant.
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Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
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Private enterprise did not get us atomic energy.
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The inborn instability of capitalism has been part of the history of the system for several hundred years.
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The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one of the devices by which its power is perpetuated.
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In dealing with Mr. Nixon, it is not easy to be unfair. He invites and justifies all available criticism.
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Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
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But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it.
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American university presidents are a nervous breed I have never thought well of them as a class.
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Happiness does not require an expanding economy
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