John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

Consider the following quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith:

"It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought."

"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."

"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking."

"The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce."

"Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything."

"Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory."

"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable."

"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite."

"You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it do"

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