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That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification of our culture.

That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification of our culture.

John Kenneth Galbraith
Looks, Needs, Culture
John Kenneth Galbraith (1968). “The New Industrial State”

Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

John Kenneth Galbraith
Vacuums, Culture, Oratory
984 Speech at the American University, Washington DC. Quoted in Time magazine, 18 Jun.

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

John Kenneth Galbraith
Thinking, Culture, Speech

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