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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with J >> Quotes By John Kenneth Galbraith |
| Quote #1: | "Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue." |
| Quote #2: | "Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable." |
| Quote #3: | "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." |
| Quote #4: | "People fo privilage will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." |
| Quote #5: | "Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next." |
| Quote #6: | "Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive." |
| Quote #7: | "The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking." |
| Quote #8: | "One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know." |
| Quote #9: | "Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory." |
| Quote #10: | "In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof." |
| Quote #11: | "Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations." |
| Quote #12: | "If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error." |
| Quote #13: | "Few people at the beginning of the ninteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted." |
| Quote #14: | "In economics, the majority is always wrong." |
| Quote #15: | "A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions." |
| Quote #16: | "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." |
| Quote #17: | "The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor." |
| Quote #18: | "Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks." |
| Quote #19: | "The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself." |
| Quote #20: | "Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite." |
| Quote #21: | "Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative." |
| Quote #22: | "In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone." |
| Quote #23: | "Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will." |
| Quote #24: | "Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists." |
| Quote #25: | "You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too." |
| Quote #26: | "It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought." |
| Quote #27: | "Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything." |
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