117 ordspråk av John Kenneth Galbraith

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John Kenneth Galbraith föddes den October 15th 1908 - Canadian-US economist
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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.

 There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

 There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging highly improbable enjoyment, caricatures of the human esophagus in normal and impaired operation, and which hints implausibly at opportunities for antiseptic seduction as inherently trivial. This is a great mistake. The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial television and could not exist in its present form without it.

 There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

 There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

 There must be, most of all, an effective safety net [of] individual and family support for those who live on the lower edges of the system.

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

 these are the days when men... seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence; when originality is taken to be a mark of instability; and when, in minor modification of the scriptural parable, the bland lead the bland.

 to conserve what is obsolescent.

 Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

 Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

 War remains the decisive human failure.

 We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

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

 We are on the edge of a total end to civilized existence
on this planet, perhaps the end of life itself.


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