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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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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By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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