Best quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith on Politics

Checkout quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith on 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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  • Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
    - John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
    - John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
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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
  • There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
    - John Kenneth Galbraith