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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Power
Expectation
states
United
The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Culture
Speech
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Character
Values
Building
Poor
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Job
Thinking
You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
John Kenneth Galbraith
State
Will
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Wisdom
Ideas
Enemy
Events
March
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Thought
Nonsense
Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Power
Will
It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Meaning
Right
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
People
Choice
Mind
Proof
In economics, the majority is always wrong.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Economics
Majority
Wrong
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
John Kenneth Galbraith
People
Liberalism
Reason
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Faith
Hope
Deep
Desire
Economics
Pretension
Respectability
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Majority
Right
Wrong
The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.
John Kenneth Galbraith
London