All John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
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.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.
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You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
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Politics
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The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
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The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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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.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?
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