John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes About Virtue
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We talk of the enormous virtues of work, but it turns out that that is mostly for the poor. If you're rich enough or if you're a college professor, the virtue lies in leisure and the use you make of your leisure time.
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Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
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People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
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[The] men of the technostructure are the new and universal priesthood. Their religion is business success; their test of virtue is growth and profit. Their bible is the computer printout; their communion bench is the committee room.
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Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
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