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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a583c3e | Any country that has Milton Friedman as an adviser has nothing to fear from a few million Arabs. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| 504b191 | Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| ad51977 | There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| 9414d8d | There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| f52e0d3 | Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| beee5b5 | In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| aad6430 | The values of a society totally preoccupied with making money are not altogether reassuring. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| 2ad64db | One of the uses of depression is the exposure of what auditors fail to find. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| 69b2562 | Wall Street's crime, in the eyes of its classical enemies, was less its power than its morals. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| 06b6af2 | More die in the United States of too much food than of too little. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| dc78740 | We do not manufacture wants for goods we do not produce. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| 9f46cf6 | One man's consumption becomes his neighbor's wish. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| d3a6c19 | It is in the long run that the corporation lives. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| db5df78 | Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| 83f96c2 | The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| 9e0e613 | Simple minds, presumably, are the easiest to manage. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| 6334bfb | No hungry man who is also sober can be persuaded to use his last dollar for anything but food. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| 68c5943 | Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| f5f52ad | Men are, in fact, either sustained by organization or they sustain organization. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| b21e5d6 | Those who yearn for the defeat of their enemy are said to wish that he might write a book. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| d306f0d | Educators have yet to realize how deeply the industrial system is dependent upon them. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| 6b33e43 | But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| 561d3ef | In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| abd7246 | The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| 9e2e881 | Why is anything intrinsically so valueless so obviously desirable? | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| c3c8420 | Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| b33c9ae | The foresight of financial experts was, as so often, a poor guide to the future. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| d089679 | If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| 5173b40 | Foresight is an imperfect thing -- all prevision in economics is imperfect. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| 86a336e | With the American failure came world failure. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| 38c930e | Nothing is more portable than rich people and their money | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| 53d7660 | Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| 2183bf6 | American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| bb84893 | Conscience is better served by a myth. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| 1630964 | If inheritance qualifies one for office, intelligence cannot be a requirement. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| 18951af | Who is king in the world of the blind when there isn't even a one eyed man? | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| 8f8ddf2 | The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| b229c97 | I'm John Kerry and I'm reporting for duty. | John Kerry | ||
| 425995d | It's the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time. | John Kerry | ||
| 5ed3ad7 | KERRY: I have had conversations with leaders. | John Kerry | ||
| 6678e97 | Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence. | John Knowles | ||
| 83dab83 | The heart of change is in the emotions. | John Kotter | ||
| d95c3fc | I ain't an athlete, lady. I'm a ballplayer. | John Kruk | ||
| a24bb29 | Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog? | John L. Lewis |