In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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I react pragmatically. Where the market works, I’m for that. Where the government is necessary, I’m for that.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Power is as power does.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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In 1929 the discovery of the wonders of the geometric series struck Wall Street with a force comparable to the invention of the wheel.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure.
~ 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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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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