John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes about Reality

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The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth. Exposure to reality remains the nemesis of the great -- a little understood thing.

The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth. Exposure to reality remains the nemesis of the great -- a little understood thing.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Reality, Men, Littles

John Kenneth Galbraith (1981). “A life in our times: memoirs”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Life, Reality, Men

John Kenneth Galbraith (2009). “The Great Crash 1929”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Reality, Revolution, Avoiding

And there was a deeper, less visible effect of the Truman loyalty program. Seeing its consequences for certain individuals and fearing its intrusion on their own lives, many in the government sought protection by strongly asserting their anti-Communism. In the public action that ensued, policy was based not on reality but, instinctively or deliberately, on personal caution...Those who urged a militant and sometimes military anti-Communism were considered sound, trustworthy and personally safe; those who questioned such a course were politically unsafe, possible even slightly disloyal.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Loyalty, Military, Reality

Those who had been riding the upward wave decide now is the time to get out. Those who thought the increase would be forever find their illusion destroyed abruptly, and they, also, respond to the newly revealed reality by selling or trying to sell. And thus the rule, supported by the experience of centuries: the speculative episode always ends not with a whimper but with a bang.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Reality, Forever, Trying

John Kenneth Galbraith (1994). “A Short History of Financial Euphoria”, p.11, Penguin

We live surrounded by a systematic appeal to a dream world which all mature, scientific reality would reject. We, quite literally, advertise our commitment to immaturity, mendacity and profound gullibility. It is as the hallmark of the culture. And it is justified as being economically indispensable.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Dream, Commitment, Reality

John Kenneth Galbraith (2001). “The Essential Galbraith”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt