Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Were it part of our everyday education and comment that the corporation is an instrument for the exercise of power, that it belongs to the process by which we are governed, there would then be debate on how that power is used and how it might be made subordinate to the public will and need. This debate is avoided by propagating the myth that the power does not exist.

John Kenneth Galbraith's Popular Quotes

If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).

- John Kenneth Galbraith

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

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

- John Kenneth Galbraith

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

The huge capacity to purchase submission that goes with any large sum of money, well, this we have. This is a power of which we should all be aware.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services, educa…

- John Kenneth Galbraith