posted April 12, 2012 01:09 PM
I don't know who this guy is, but I like his wit.Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
John Kenneth Galbraith
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
John Kenneth Galbraith
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
John Kenneth Galbraith
The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.
John Kenneth Galbraith
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
John Kenneth Galbraith
(This is probably the best one)
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.
John Kenneth Galbraith
You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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