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Happiness does not require an expanding economy
John Kenneth Galbraith
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John Kenneth Galbraith
Age: 97 †
Born: 1908
Born: October 15
Died: 2006
Died: April 29
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The Senate has unlimited debate in the House, debate is ruthlessly circumscribed. There is frequent discussion as to which technique most effectively frustrates democratic process.
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All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.
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I never enjoyed writing a book more indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but as a joy.
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Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.
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You will find that [the] State [Department] is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.
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The years of the Great Depression were a superb time for economists because people not knowing what could be done or what should be done would always assume that maybe an economist had the answer. If you were just a lawyer in Washington, you were nobody. But if you were an economist, you might have the answer.
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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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There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.
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Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence.
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A drastic reduction in weapons competition following a general release from the commitment to the Cold War would be sharply in conflict with the needs of the industrial system.
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There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
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Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof.
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A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.
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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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The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.
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Hermann Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Albert Speer, Walther Frank, Julius Streicher and Robert Ley did pass under my inspectionand interrogation in 1945 but they only proved that National Socialism was a gangster interlude at a rather low order of mental capacity and with a surprisingly high incidence of alcoholism.
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The first goal of the technostructure is its own security.
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