Best quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith on People

Checkout quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith on People

• ‟ Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

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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.

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• ‟ Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.

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• ‟ Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

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• ‟ Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

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

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