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John Kenneth Galbraith

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


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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His work included several best selling works throughout the fifties and sixties. He further believed that market power played a major role in inflation and argued that corporations and trade unions could only increase prices to the extent that their market power allowed them to. The growing concern focused on the role of the corporation in politics the damage done to the natural environment by an unmitigated commitment to economic growth and the perversion of advertising and other pecuniary aspects of culture.

Galbraith was active in Democratic Party politics serving in the administrations of Franklin D. Galbraith was a prolific author who produced four dozen books and over a thousand articles on various subjects. Truman John F.

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