Quote #10

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

More from John Kenneth Galbraith

  1. There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
  2. Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such iner…
  3. In a community where public services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere o…
  4. Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute…
  5. It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
  6. People are the common denominator of progress. So, paucis verbis, no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain…
  7. Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
  8. By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

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