6 John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes on Ethics

John Kenneth Galbraith quotes on ethics

29. The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.

47. In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

53. People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

73. Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

79. There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

85. The truth is not the average of right and wrong.