It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

John Kenneth Galbraith


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The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

John Kenneth Galbraith


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If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).

John Kenneth Galbraith


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

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Aunque todo lo demás falle, siempre podemos asegurarnos la inmortalidad cometiendo algún error espectacular.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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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.

John Kenneth Galbraith


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Under capitalism, man exploits man; while under socialism just the reverse is true.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.

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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The complaints of the privileged are too often confused with the voice of the masses.

John Kenneth Galbraith


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