John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the realization that such people rarely read.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Writing, People, Realization

  James K. Galbraith, Kari Levitt, Mel Watkins, John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (2009). “Unconventional wisdom: lectures from the John Kenneth Galbraith prize in economics”

• The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Important, Inquiry, May

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1968). “The New Industrial State”

• There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Fall, People, Wicked

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went”, p.5, Princeton University Press

• What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure and enhancing caloric intake above any conceivable nutritional requirement.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Success, Sensual, Energy

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1968). “The New Industrial State”

• No nice philosophical point has ever been so decisively resolved as this: that those who are not conceived do not miss the pleasure of consuming the goods they do not get born to enjoy.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Nice, Philosophical, Missing

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.117, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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