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01c. 1957 AD

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.

John Kenneth Galbraith / quote

02c. 1957 AD

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

John Kenneth Galbraith / quote

03c. 1957 AD

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

John Kenneth Galbraith / quote

04c. 1957 AD

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

John Kenneth Galbraith / quote

05c. 1957 AD

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

John Kenneth Galbraith / quote

06c. 1957 AD

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.

John Kenneth Galbraith / quote