John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares of General Motors or General Electric.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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• I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I am passionate about human rights.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Human
  • Rights
  • Passionate

• When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Knowledge
  • Limit
  • Limited

• Quite understandably, people think that if there's a six-year gap or whatever, that it's taken me six years to make the album. It's not really like that at all.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Album
  • Gap

• I think 'In The Heat Of The Night' was one of the most influential films on me. Looking back now, I can see how influential it was on my screenwriting because here you have what looks to be a crime procedural, and it's actually a study in race and loneliness, and a perception of an era.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Study
  • Crime
  • Loneliness

• The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Responsibility
  • Care
  • Seeing

• I think that nationality has no relation to that which gives rise to manga. Even among the Japanese, manga creators are making their creations everyday reflecting their own individuality, with none being the same. What is important isn't the differences between the creators but their love for manga.

  

  Natsuki Takaya
  • Important
  • Think
  • Relation

• I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Life
  • Never
  • Down

• I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Think
  • Death
  • Me

• I challenge anyone to tell me there isn't evil in this world.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • World
  • Me
  • Evil

• When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • She
  • Worry
  • Progress

• I realize I never stand out in a room unless I'm feeling balanced, centered and happy. It sounds really corny but it's very, very true.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • True
  • Happy
  • Feeling

• Most people should be talking about how Floyd Mayweather is a great undefeated future Hall of Famer that's his own promoter and that works extremely hard to get to where he's at. Instead, all you hear is hate and jealous remarks from critics who criticize me and, you know, most of the time, the people that criticize me can't do what I can do.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Europe

• God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Work
  • God

• I went to the Talladega 500 with a girl I had just met. She was very sweet with childlike qualities. No titties! (p. 113).

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • She
  • Girl
  • Sweet

• What does labor want? We want more school houses and less jails. More books and less guns. More learning and less vice. More leisure and less greed. More justice and less revenge. We want more … opportunities to cultivate our better natures.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • School
  • Learning
  • Justice

• I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.

  

  John D. Rockefeller
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Religious

• It was early one morning on a calm sea, off Guatemala, when over my couch - a coil of rope - I saw the beginning of a fiery red sunrise on one side and the moon looking like a silver coin on the other.

  

  Alexander Calder
  • Morning
  • Beginning
  • Red

• Flight without feathers is not easy.

  

  Plautus

• The power of understanding symbols, i.e. of regarding everything about a sense-datum as irrelevant except a certain form that it embodies, is the most characteristic mental trait of mankind. It issues in an unconscious, spontaneous process of abstraction, which goes on all the time in the human mind: a process of recognizing the concept in any configuration given to experience, and forming a conception accordingly. That is the real sense of Aristotle's definition of Man as "the rational animal".

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Real

• If I could be good at any sport, it'd be javelin. I know a few people I would love to throw a spear at.

  

  Cheryl Cole
  • People
  • Good

• No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares of General Motors or General Electric.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith