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John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

«The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.»
«One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their silence.»
«Among all the world's races ... Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not a consequence of any special preference for mendacity.... It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong.»
«In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith | Keywords: safer
«People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage»
«Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith | About: Advertising | Keywords: adman, nineteenth
«Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity»
«One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done»
«Wisdom itself is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith | About: Wisdom | Keywords: asserts
«The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.»

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