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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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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In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplifications of our culture.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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There’s a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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The pioneering instrument of reform was the Bank of England. Of all institutions concerned with economics none has for so long enjoyed such prestige. It is, in all respects, to money as St. Peter’s is to Faith.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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