John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Had the Bible been in clear straightforward language, had the ambiguities and contradictions been edited out, and had the language been constantly modernised to accord with contemporary taste it would almost certainly have been, or become, a work of lesser influence.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Atheism, Taste, Language

• I write with two things in mind. I want to be right with my fellow economists. After all, I've made my life as a professional economist, so I'm careful that my economics is as it should be. But I have long felt that there's no economic proposition that can't be stated in clear, accessible language. So I try to be right with my fellow economists, but I try to have an audience of any interested, intelligent person.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Writing, Intelligent, Two

  Interview with Brian Lamb, Booknotes C-SPAN, November 13, 1994.

• Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Ideas, Common, Language

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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