People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

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In economics, the majority is always wrong.

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or...

Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or...

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

Food - taken to support life Wine - taken to enrichen life Food and Wine...

Food - taken to support life Wine - taken to enrichen life Food and Wine...

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either...

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either...

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has...

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has...

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit...

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit...

The total alteration in underlying circumstances has not been squarely faced, As a result, we...

The total alteration in underlying circumstances has not been squarely faced, As a result, we...

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them...

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them...

Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or...

Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or...

A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.

A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does...

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does...

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

Leaving prices out of the picture is probably the source of more fallacies in economics...

Leaving prices out of the picture is probably the source of more fallacies in economics...

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be...

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be...

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.