John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes on Change

6 quotes

  1. By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

  2. All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

  3. The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

  4. There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

  5. It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure.

  6. Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof.

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