John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• 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.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Honesty, Integrity, Philosophy

  "Stop the Madness". "The Globe and Mail" Newspaper, July 6, 2002.

• People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Umpires, People, Virtue

  The Guardian, May 23, 1992.

• Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Modesty, Virtue, Economy

  John Kenneth Galbraith, J. Ron Stanfield, Jacqueline Bloom Stanfield (2004). “Interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith”, p.197, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• [The] men of the technostructure are the new and universal priesthood. Their religion is business success; their test of virtue is growth and profit. Their bible is the computer printout; their communion bench is the committee room.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, Growth, Society

• Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Taken, Decision, Virtue

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2001). “Name-Dropping: From FDR On”, p.186, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• We talk of the enormous virtues of work, but it turns out that that is mostly for the poor. If you're rich enough or if you're a college professor, the virtue lies in leisure and the use you make of your leisure time.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Lying, College, Leisure

  Source: www.progressive.org

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