In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
Tag: John Kenneth Galbraith
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Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
Where humor is concerned there are no standards – no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.