John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes About Myth

Quotes about: Myth

• Were it part of our everyday education and comment that the corporation is an instrument for the exercise of power, that it belongs to the process by which we are governed, there would then be debate on how that power is used and how it might be made subordinate to the public will and need. This debate is avoided by propagating the myth that the power does not exist.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Exercise, Everyday, Doe

• The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one of the devices by which its power is perpetuated.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Puppets, Corporations, Facts

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 9, p. 258, 1977.

• Conscience is better served by a myth.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Myth, Conscience

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 4, p. 111, 1977.

• The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth. Exposure to reality remains the nemesis of the great -- a little understood thing.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Reality, Men, Littles

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1981). “A life in our times: memoirs”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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