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John Galbraith

People are the common denomin...

People are the common denominator of progress. So no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills,and the other familiar furniture of economic development. But we are coming to realize that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.

John Galbraith 445 quotes
John Galbraith

That one never need to look b...

That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification of our culture.

John Galbraith 445 quotes
John Galbraith

It was Herbert Spencer, not C...

It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest.

John Galbraith 445 quotes
John Galbraith

The Senate has unlimited deba...

The Senate has unlimited debate; in the House, debate is ruthlessly circumscribed. There is frequent discussion as to which technique most effectively frustrates democratic process.

John Galbraith 445 quotes
John Galbraith

The threat to men of great di...

The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth. Exposure to reality remains the nemesis of the great -- a little understood thing.

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John Galbraith

To see economic policy as a p...

To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.

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John Galbraith

I am not quite sure what the ...

I am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend if the air is too dirty to breathe, the water too polluted to drink, the commuters are losing out in the struggle to get in and out of the city, the streets are filthy, and the schools so bad that the young perhaps wisely stay away, and the hoodlums roll citizens for some of the dollars they saved in the tax cut.

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John Galbraith

One must always have in mind ...

One must always have in mind one simple fact - there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and there is no illiterate population that is anything but poor.

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John Galbraith

Let’s begin with capitalism, ...

Let’s begin with capitalism, a word that has gone largely out of fashion. The approved reference now is to the market system. This shift minimizes - indeed, deletes - the role of wealth in the economic and social system. And it sheds the adverse connotation going back to Marx. Instead of the owners of capital or their attendants in control, we have the admirably impersonal role of market forces. It would be hard to think of a change in terminology more in the interest of those to whom money accords power. They have now a functional anonymity.

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John Galbraith

The study of money, above all...

The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled.

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John Galbraith

The contented and economicall...

The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations... But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness.

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John Galbraith

A bad book is the worse that ...

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.

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John Galbraith

Politics is not the art of th...

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

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John Galbraith

In all life one should comfor...

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.

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John Galbraith

Much literary criticism comes...

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.

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John Galbraith

The Metropolis should have be...

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

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John Galbraith

In any great organization it ...

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

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John Galbraith

Meetings are a great trap. So...

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.

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John Galbraith

We have escapist fiction, so ...

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

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John Galbraith

The commencement speech is no...

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

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