Top 10 Galbraith Affluent Society Quotes

#1. The Affluent Society not only changed the way the country viewed itself, but gave new phrases to the language: Conventional wisdom, the bland leading the bland, private opulence and public squalor.

Amartya Sen

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#2. In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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#3. Wintery day,
On my horse
A frozen shadow.

Basho Matsuo

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#4. We, the human beings, are meant to live life to its fullest. We are meant to experience it all - sadness, disappointment, rage, kindness, joy, love. We are meant to test ourselves. It is painful and frightening, but this is what it means to be alive.

Ilona Andrews

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#5. When the going gets tough ... the sensitive people smooth the path for others, and take the small children gently by the hand. We'll catch up to the tough in time ...

Tom Althouse

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#6. Things that come from the private sector are in abundant supply; things that depend on the public sector are widely a problem. We're a world, as I said in The Affluent Society, of filthy streets and clean houses, poor schools and expensive television.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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#7. Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.

Margaret Mead

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#8. I left because I decided it just really wasn't for me, and I got a better understanding of what the Catholic Church needed from its priests and ministers.

Peter Jurasik

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#9. I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

Howard Hodgkin

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#10. The human being is the only animal that thinks about the future.

Daniel M. Gilbert

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