Kenneth

Famous quotes containing the word kenneth:

“In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)

“Will there never come a season
Which shall rid us from the curse
Of a prose which knows no reason
And an unmelodious verse:”
—James Kenneth Stephen (1859–1892)

“Among all the world’s races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the consequence of any special preference for mendacity, although at the higher levels of their public administration that tendency is impressive. It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)