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Conscience is better served by a myth.
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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Both we and the Soviets face the common threat of nuclear destruction and there is no likelihood that either capitalism or communism will survive a nuclear war.
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Only men of considerable vanity write books consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more easily purchased diplomat.
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The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.
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When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover.
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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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All writers know that on some golden mornings they are touched by the wand they are on intimate terms with poetry and cosmic truth. I have experienced these moments myself. Their lesson is simple: It's a total illusion. And the danger in the illusion is that you will wait for those moments.
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Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
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The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.
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I think without a doubt, that what is called financial genius is merely a rising market.
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What was needed was a policy that increased the supply of money available for use and then ensured its use. Then the state of trade would have to improve.
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No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.
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Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
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If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to trickle down economics).
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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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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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We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
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When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.
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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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In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians.
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To add to the technostructure is to increase its power in the enterprise.
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