"Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
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Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
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"Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything."
John Kenneth Galbraith"War remains the decisive human failure."
John Kenneth Galbraith"In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability."
John Kenneth Galbraith"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite."
John Kenneth Galbraith"Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive."
John Kenneth Galbraith"Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence."
John Kenneth Galbraith"Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all."
John Kenneth Galbraith"We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect."
John Kenneth Galbraith"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"Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not."
John Kenneth Galbraith"The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled."
John Kenneth Galbraith"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
John Kenneth Galbraith"Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative."
John Kenneth Galbraith"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
John Kenneth Galbraith"Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory."
John Kenneth Galbraith"By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man."
John Kenneth Galbraith"Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists."
John Kenneth Galbraith"The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself."
John Kenneth Galbraith