John Kenneth Galbraith | politics
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
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John Kenneth Galbraith | politics
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
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John Kenneth Galbraith | politics
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
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John Kenneth Galbraith | nature
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
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John Kenneth Galbraith | money
We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.
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John Kenneth Galbraith | money
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
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John Kenneth Galbraith | leadership
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
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