Tag: John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

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People fo privilage will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

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

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Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

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The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor.

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

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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.

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