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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.
It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.
The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
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John Kenneth Galbraith
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15 October, 1908
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29 April, 2006
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