In economics, unlike fiction and the theater, there is no harm in a premature disclosure of the plot: it is to see the changes just mentioned and others as an interlocked whole.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Nothing is more portable than rich people and their money.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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The first goal of the technostructure is its own security.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one of the devices by which its power is perpetuated.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Conscience is better served by a myth.
~ 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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Our political life favors the extremes of speech; the man who is gifted in the arts of abuse is bound to be a notable, if not always a great figure.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Educators have yet to realize how deeply the industrial system is dependent upon them.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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In the really hard cases you’re choosing between the disastrous and the catastrophic, and it’s hard to tell someone which one is which.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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