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All Quotes by author - John Kenneth Galbraith
" A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books. "
Devil
Finding
Book
" All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. "
Leadership
People
Anxiety
" All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. "
Door
Kicking
Rotten
" A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions. "
Deepest
Emotions
Person
" By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man. "
Small
Man
Romantic
" Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised. "
American
Say
Minds
" Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. "
Employment
Economics
Economists
" Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. "
Everyone
Mind
Need
" Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects. "
Suffering
Others
Believe
" Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. "
Wanted
Few
Beginning
" Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all. "
Attention
Some
Humor
" If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. "
Always
Error
Spectacular
" If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old. "
Spirit
Never
Grow
" In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong. "
Wrong
Comfort
Comfortable
" In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. "
Right
Wrong
Alone
" In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability. "
Hope
Deep
Great
" In economics, the majority is always wrong. "
Majority
Economics
Always
" In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof. "
People
Mind
Most
" In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. "
Expectation
Power
Power Corrupts
" It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation. "
Others
Scholar
Meaning
" It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought. "
Anchor
Thought
Nonsense
" It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state. "
Aesthetic
Goals
Good
" Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. "
Think
Reason
People
" 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. "
People
Yourself
Meetings
" Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. "
Business
Want
Meetings
" Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. "
Modesty
Virtue
Vastly
" Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not. "
Mistress
Important
Money
" More die in the United States of too much food than of too little. "
Food
Die
United States
" 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. "
Laziness
People
Freedom
" Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. "
Short
Memory
Nothing
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