John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

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• I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Look
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• You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Support
  • Always
  • Might

• And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Chance
  • Happened
  • Flight

• The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.

  

  Edmund White
  • Up
  • Good
  • Friends

• I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Country
  • Hope
  • Stand

• I am a very selfish person.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
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  • Selfish

• Without siblings you get quite a skewed vision of yourself and of the world. I always felt I didn't understand how it worked. I remember feeling quite lonely.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • World
  • Remember
  • Feeling

• In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.

  

  Xavi
  • Football
  • Win
  • Legacy

• There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Life
  • Path
  • Lie

• Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

  

  Dale Dauten
  • Time
  • Success
  • Failure

• Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Country
  • Energy

• I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Bitcoin
  • Blockchain
  • Wed

• My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Good
  • Music
  • Father

• Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Country
  • Faith
  • Community

• Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Experience
  • You
  • Wanted

• Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Love
  • Heaven
  • Guitar

• And through it all, calm and impassive, leaning on his elbow and gazing down, Wolf Larsen seemed lost in a great curiosity. This wild stirring of yeasty life, this terrific revolt and defiance of matter that moved, perplexed and interested him.

  

  Jack London
  • Life
  • Great
  • Lost

• We know that when change comes, no one is more adamant in holding on to the past than those in power. They know change is inevitable, but they would, if they could, parcel it out in measured pieces. Grain for chickens.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Power
  • Past

• What can be said for a man who would allow his home to be invaded by strangers who demanded they be fed, clothed, housed and granted the rights of the first-born? What can be said for a ruling elite that permits this to be done to the nation, and who celebrate it as a milestone of moral progress?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Done
  • Home
  • Moral

• Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Childhood

• A lot of people don't realize that when you're trying to lose weight, or just trying to stay fit, 85 percent of it is what you eat, and 15 percent of it is how you work out.

  

  Ciara
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• Reality is that even if you come out with a really good song, all will go to waste without good promotion.

  

  Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
  • Song
  • Reality
  • Waste

• The fact that I lost my mum was horrible, and if I could change anything, I would definitely change that.

  

  Lennie James
  • Lost

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

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith