It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
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John Kenneth Galbraith
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John Kenneth Galbraith, also known as J. K. Galbraith or Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s. As an economist, he leaned toward post-Keynesian economics from an institutionalist perspective. He served as the deputy director of the powerful Office of Price Administration (OPA) during World War II in charge of stabilizing all prices, wages and rents in the Amer…
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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 fr…
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
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War remains the decisive human failure.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.