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Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#agreeable #allow #beach #does #eliminating

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#award #chief #chief executive #corporation #executive

It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#been #every #himself #indignation #into

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#american #american audience #audience #boredom #cliche

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#discarded #like #power #something #underwear

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#capital #dialectic #economic #enterprise #great

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#must #politics #right #right side #side

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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