143 ordspråk av John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith föddes den 15 oktober 1908 - Canadian-US economist
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Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.

Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

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

Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.

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Anyone who says he won't resign four times, will.

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

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If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

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