The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

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Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is...

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against...

When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against...

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.

Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.

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...

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is...

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is...

What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for...

What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for...

One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full,...

One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full,...

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous...

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous...

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the...

It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the...

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...

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than...

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than...

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

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

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

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

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