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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.
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 more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.
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No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services, education or money, income is an excellent antidote for deprivation. No truth has spawned so much ingenious evasion.
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Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings.
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Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.
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Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.
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Economics exists to make astrology look respectable.
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The first goal of the technostructure is its own security.
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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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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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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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In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.
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It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
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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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There is little that can be said about most economic goods. A toothbrush does little but clean teeth. Aspirin does little but dull pain. Alcohol is important mostly for making people more or less drunk ... There being so little to be said, much is to be invented.
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Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.
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A wrong decision isn't forever it can always be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever they can never be retrieved.
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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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