A Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

Poverty" Pitt exclaimed "is no disgrace but it is damned annoying." In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it is a disgrace.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Annoying Contemporary Disgrace Poverty States United United States

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John Kenneth Galbraith
American - Economist
October 15, 1908 - April 29, 2006

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

William Pitt

I think the TAC was just a disgrace, a disgrace not only to the [health] department but a disgrace to the whole country. But I think, as South Africa, we really demonstrated that we are doing pretty well.

Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.

Stephen Ambrose

I'm in love with this country called "America." I'm a huge fan of America. I'm one of those annoying fans - you know, the ones that read the cd notes and follow you into bathrooms and ask you all kinds of annoying questions about why you didn't live up to that. I'm that kind of fan. I've read the Declaration of Independence, and I've read the Constitution of the United States, and they are some liner notes, dude.

Edward de Bono

There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail

Henry Ford

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

Hesiod

If you feel uncomfortable on stage, you can very easily descend into a sort of abyss, convinced you're the worst actor ever, that you're a disgrace to the profession, that you're a disgrace to yourself. It's an awful feeling.

Stephen Dillane

The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy, shared in this disgrace.

H. L. Mencken

Ronaldo is a disgrace to the game. His petulance, temperament, throwing himself on the ground. It was a disgrace to professional football. This fella Ronaldo is a cod.

Eamon Dunphy

There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.

Cathy Rigby

Americans have got to understand that we are paying present-day retirees with the taxes paid by young workers in America today. And that's a disgrace. It's an absolute disgrace and it's got to be fixed.

John McCain

Altogether apart from that, it would be a disgrace to us to make this bargain with Germany at the expense of France, a disgrace from which the good name of this country would never recover.