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Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Preservationists are the only people in the world who are invariably confirmed in their wisdom after the fact.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Galbraith's First Law: Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Began to read a piece on how a high street chain of stores had banned Cliff Richard's Christmas songs.
— Robert Galbraith
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Like foxes to a dustbin,
— Robert Galbraith
It's a rule worth having in mind. Income almost always flows along the same axis as power but in the opposite direction.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy. Boethius, De
— Robert Galbraith
Robin and Matthew had just two months to go before the wedding. There was still time.
— Robert Galbraith
Anyone who says he won't resign four times, will.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Happiness does not require an expanding economy
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Landry case and - Jesus - didn't someone just send you a
— Robert Galbraith
Conventional wisdom in Galbraith's view must be simple, convenient, comfortable and comforting - though not necessarily true.
— Steven D. Levitt
Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
He drank it sitting in Robin's chair, and ate half a packet of digestives,
— Robert Galbraith
Who is king in the world of the blind when there isn't even a one eyed man?
— 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
Like most writers, I tend to find out what I feel on a subject by writing about it. It is how we interpret the world, how we make sense of it.
— Robert Galbraith
They walked fifty yards in silence, and Strike had lit up a cigarette before he said: "Very, very impressive." Robin glowed with pride.
— Robert Galbraith
Lucy's idea of sympathy compared unfavorably with some of the interrogation techniques they had used at Guantanamo.
— Robert Galbraith
Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Unhappy is he whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. Lucius Accius, Telephus
— Robert Galbraith
Strike was used to playing archaeologist among the ruins of people's traumatised memories;
— Robert Galbraith
Who was more conscious than the soldier of capricious fortune, of the random roll of the dice?
— Robert Galbraith
Abused people cling to their abusers.
— Robert Galbraith
In the inverted food chain of fame, it was the big beasts who were stalked and hunted
— Robert Galbraith
One mellows almost without realizing it's a compensation of age, because anger is exhausting.
— Robert Galbraith
How could the death of someone you had never met affect you so?
— Robert Galbraith
A masterpiece produced by an indecipherable cocktail of races, Kolovas-Jones's skin was
— Robert Galbraith
In economics, the majority is always wrong.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Ideas may be superior to vested interest. They are also very often the children of vested interest.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Did her faint eccentricity of manner mask something more serious, some fundamental cognitive problem?
— Robert Galbraith
No self-respecting blowfly wants to lay eggs in acid.
— Robert Galbraith
There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Shoveling food into his mouth. Thoughts came fluently, cogently:
— Robert Galbraith
Men are, in fact, either sustained by organization or they sustain organization.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Yet he liked her face. He liked her voice. He liked being around her.
— Robert Galbraith
If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Only foolish people are completely secure.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
It is possible that people need to believe they are unmanaged if they are to be managed effectively.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Ridiculous," he said breathlessly. "You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing.
— Robert Galbraith
Instinct was clawing at him like an importuning dog.
— Robert Galbraith
Economics is not an exact science.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Strike noticed that, in spite of Duffield's air of disorientation and distress, he had made a good job of applying his eyeliner.
— Robert Galbraith
The first goal of the technostructure is its own security.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
It is not the individual's right to buy that is being protected. Rather, it is the seller's right to manage the individual.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
There was, she noticed, a fragment of frozen pea caught in the setting of her engagement ring.
— Robert Galbraith
I think the role of the Federal Reserve is enormously exaggerated.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
But there is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
The process by which money is created is so simple that the mind is repelled.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Any country that has Milton Friedman as an adviser has nothing to fear from a few million Arabs.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Economic life, as always, is a matrix in which result becomes cause and cause becomes result.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
She couldn't understand a vocation. Some people can't; at best, work's about status and pay cheques for them, it hasn't got value in itself.
— Robert Galbraith
The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its products.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Can't you understand that I'd much rather help catch him that sit around waiting for him to pounce?
— Robert Galbraith
The massive reduction in risk that is inherent in the development of the modern corporation has been far from fully appreciated.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Milton Friedman's misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried.
— 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
When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
The foresight of financial experts was, as so often, a poor guide to the future.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
were fewer of them in the UK than
— Robert Galbraith
Robin did not know why the announcement that Strike was off to meet Elin should lower her spirits.
— Robert Galbraith
Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
She is a woman of an excellent assurance, and an extraordinary happy wit, and tongue. Ben Jonson, Epicoene, or The Silent Woman
— Robert Galbraith
Agreeable as it is to know where one is proceeding, it is far more important to know where one has arrived.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
It is almost as important to know what is not serious as to know what is.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
The spirit should never grow old.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Keeping busy was the only answer: action had always been his drug of choice.
— Robert Galbraith
As always, he found her better-looking in the flesh than in the memory he had of her when not present.
— Robert Galbraith
In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by whichthey have once won office.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
According to the experience of all but the most accomplished jugglers, it is easier to keep one ball in the air than many.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Nobody enjoys accepting that they have reaped what they have sown.
— Robert Galbraith
A paunchy man with a face the color of corned beef,
— Robert Galbraith
He felt as though his capacity for loving had been blunted, the nerve endings severed. He
— Robert Galbraith
The capacity for erroneous belief is very great, especially where it coincides with convenience.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
In days and he was too late to pick up the trail at her home station. The best he could do was to lurk around the
— Robert Galbraith
If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).
— John Kenneth Galbraith
I am become a name.
— Robert Galbraith
Genius is a rising stock market.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.
— George Stigler
The fully planned economy, so far from being unpopular, is warmly regarded by those who know it best.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Nothing is more portable than rich people and their money
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Wisdom ... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Strike felt abnormally huge and hairy; a woolly mammoth attempting to blend in among capuchin monkeys.
— Robert Galbraith
The detective seemed to remember reading that advertisers used Scottish accents to suggest integrity and honesty. The
— Robert Galbraith
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
— John Kenneth Galbraith