There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose. John Kenneth Galbraith American Economist More John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes 7
War remains the decisive human failure. John Kenneth Galbraith American Economist More John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes 5
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. John Kenneth Galbraith American Economist More John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes 3
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. John Kenneth Galbraith American Economist More John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes 1
We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography? John Kenneth Galbraith American Economist More John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes 1
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. John Kenneth Galbraith American Economist More John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes 0
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence. John Kenneth Galbraith American Economist More John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes 0
You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too. John Kenneth Galbraith American Economist More John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes 0
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. John Kenneth Galbraith More John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes 0
We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us. John Kenneth Galbraith More John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes 0
It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless. John Kenneth Galbraith More John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes 0
When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it. John Kenneth Galbraith More John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes 0
The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not. John Kenneth Galbraith More John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes 0
In economics it is a far, far wiser thing to be right than to be consistent. John Kenneth Galbraith More John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes 0
One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money. John Kenneth Galbraith More John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes 0
In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less. John Kenneth Galbraith More John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes 0
The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations. But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness. John Kenneth Galbraith More John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes 0
Any consideration of the life and larger social existence of the modern corporate man begins and also largely ends with the effect of one all-embracing force. That is organization -- the highly structured assemblage of men, and now some women, of which he is a part. It is to this, at the expense of family, friends, sex, recreation and sometimes health and effective control of alcoholic intake, that he is expected to devote his energies. John Kenneth Galbraith More John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes 0
What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure and enhancing caloric intake above any conceivable nutritional requirement. John Kenneth Galbraith More John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes 0
Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. John Kenneth Galbraith More John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes 0
Once the visitor was told rather repetitively that this city was the melting pot; never before in history had so many people of such varied languages, customs, colors and culinary habits lived so amicably together. Although New York remains peaceful by most standards, this self-congratulation is now less often heard, since it was discovered some years ago that racial harmony depended unduly on the willingness of the blacks (and latterly the Puerto Ricans) to do for the other races the meanest jobs at the lowest wages and then to return to live by themselves in the worst slums. John Kenneth Galbraith More John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes 0
There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging highly improbable enjoyment, caricatures of the human esophagus in normal and impaired operation, and which hints implausibly at opportunities for antiseptic seduction as inherently trivial. This is a great mistake. The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial television and could not exist in its present form without it. John Kenneth Galbraith More John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes 0
Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has said before. John Kenneth Galbraith More John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes 0
If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves. John Kenneth Galbraith More John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes 0
It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved. John Kenneth Galbraith More John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes 0