John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes About Revolution

Quotes about: Revolution

• All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Inspiration, Successful, Doors

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2001). “The Essential Galbraith”, p.186, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare and spending for war. During the Depression very modest outlays for the unemployed seemed socially debilitating, economically unsound. Now expenditures many times greater for weapons and soldiers were perfectly safe. It's a difference that still persists.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  War, Two, Differences

• All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Successful, Men, Doors

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2001). “The Essential Galbraith”, p.186, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Drinking, Commitment, Dope

• Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Reality, Revolution, Avoiding

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