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«There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.»
«Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.»
«The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.»
«War remains the decisive human failure.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
«Among all the world's races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the consequence of any special preference for mendacity, although at the higher levels of their public administration that tendency is impressive. It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
«to conserve what is obsolescent.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
«On the first of January of 1929, as a simple matter of probability, it was most likely that the boom would end before the year was out, ... The market wouldn't level out; it would fall precipitately.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
«The overwhelming idea I would like to see is some end in Washington to this enormous preoccupation with sex, as it gives an opening for speech to anybody who's had any experience with it,»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
«a much more concerned look at the problems of the weak economies, particularly the innocent people that are suffering there.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
«An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
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