Quote #76
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
More from John Kenneth Galbraith
- The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
- The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.
- One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
- The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justifica…
- Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
- There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
- Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
- Trickle-down theory - the less than elegant metaphor that if one feeds the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sp…