John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

In everything I do, whether in business, philanthropy or my personal life, I am guided by my inner truth, my values.

Have a spiritual basis which guides you in life. Have a philosophy of life to live by.

All I can go on is my own value system.

I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.

You should have a value system. You can win if you stick with your value system.

You can't bullet-point Trump's political beliefs because he doesn't have them. He's got various things he wants, needs, wants to accomplish, based on circumstances at the moment, not based on a philosophy. Now, there's a foundation. The foundation for Donald Trump is "Make America Great Again." It's the greatest place on earth and we're gonna build it back up and it's gonna be the greatest no matter what, compared to whoever, it's gonna be the greatest. So, I mean, you can say that. But that's not a political philosophy. That's an objective or a series of goals.

Take it from your own life, write what you believe in.

Society doesn't have values. People have values.

My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system.

You can have a value system and be unable to totally live it.

You need to know your values.

When knowledge is cut off from traditional values, it becomes disastrous.

I think morality is so individual and personal, and people draw their own lines of what that means for them.

The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world.

Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.

In those moments when priorities clash always stay guided by your values, not your perceived necessities.

Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.

I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the economic and social systems that we have designed for ourselves; the institutions and concepts that make up that system; the policies that we pursue.

The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.

As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse.

He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity.

And even sadness was also something for rich people, for people who could afford it, for people who didn't have anything better to do. Sadness was a luxury.

If you going to live by a certain code - as Bob Dylan said, you gotta serve somebody.

Everybody's got a worldview, whether they know they have it or they don't. They might even get it when they are little tiny kids. Suppose they get it when they are in college, which is often the case, or in high school, whatever. Everything they learn after that or every thing they see after that, they fit it into that worldview. And they are making coherence of what's good, what's bad, what will work, what won't work, what's noble, what's ignoble, and so on... all through this filter.

Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them.