The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations. But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor,…

Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

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Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves...

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Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so...

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

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We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not...

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...

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Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

War remains the decisive human failure.

War remains the decisive human failure.

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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness...

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...

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In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire...

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

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In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority...

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In economics, the majority is always wrong.

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The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

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Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

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There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

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All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

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By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the...

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the...

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The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you...