Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more pe… — Quoted

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“Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.”

John Kenneth Galbraith · Politics

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John Kenneth Galbraith

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

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John Kenneth Galbraith

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

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John Kenneth Galbraith

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

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John Kenneth Galbraith

War remains the decisive human failure.

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