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Men are, in fact, either sustained by organization or they sustain organization.
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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American university presidents are a nervous breed I have never thought well of them as a class.
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Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.
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If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.
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Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.
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I react to what is necessary. I would like to eschew any formula.
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To add to the technostructure is to increase its power in the enterprise.
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In economics, the majority is always wrong.
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In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.
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Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.
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Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.
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I've long believed alas, that in highly organized industrial societies, capitalist or socialist, the stronger tendency is to converge - that if steel or automobiles are wanted and must be made on a large scale, the process will stamp its imprint on the society, whether that me be Magnitogorsk or Gary, Indiana.
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It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
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The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important.
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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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