Quote #75
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
More from John Kenneth Galbraith
- One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
- The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
- Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
- The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.
- Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
- The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justifica…
- 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 …
- There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.