It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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More quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
- By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
- In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
- Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
- Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
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