The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
From John Kenneth Galbraith
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.
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.
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
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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