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Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

“There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith was a renowned economist known for his research on economic cycles, market structures, and government policies. His works have had a profound impact on economic theory and policy practice. more

“The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.”

“The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.”

Ends Use Politics Doors Revolution Keys Return Limits Males Tolerance Wheels Rebellious Liberated Relics Revolving Revolving Doors Liberated Woman

Book:On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978

Source: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978

“If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you can do nothing but raise signals, and make motions to the people.”

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Book:The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Politics

Source: The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Politics

“A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.”

Whole Creation Objects Modest

Book:She Stoops to Conquer

Source: She Stoops to Conquer

“The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.”

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Author:Anais Nin

“You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.”

White Revolution Rebellious Gloves

Author:Vladimir Lenin

Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

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