The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

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If it is dangerous to suppose that government is always right, it will sooner or...

If it is dangerous to suppose that government is always right, it will sooner or...

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals....

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals....

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need...

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need...

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

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

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed,...

The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed,...

Wisdom itself is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the...

Wisdom itself is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the...

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...

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

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...

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which...

There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which...

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a...

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a...

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the...

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the...

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in...

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in...

Good taste and humour...are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

Good taste and humour...are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

Im at the top of my game. And that game is Monopoly. Im standing on...

Im at the top of my game. And that game is Monopoly. Im standing on...