American - Economist | October 15, 1908 - April 29, 2006
You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
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Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.
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There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
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Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
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There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
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In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
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People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
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If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
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Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
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All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.
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