Who is king in the world of the blind when there isn't even a one eyed man? — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
This is a world inhabited not by people who have to be persuaded to believe but by people who want an excuse… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
One must always have in mind one simple fact - there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In recent times no problem has been more puzzling to thoughtful people than why, in a troubled world, we make such poor… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I am for a close global association in trade and financial matters, rather than the opposite possibility of excessive nationalism, as manifested… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What is recurrently so described and celebrated is, without exception, a small variation on… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Among all the world's races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
We live surrounded by a systematic appeal to a dream world which all mature, scientific reality would reject. We, quite literally, advertise… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
[Franklin Delano] Roosevelt was the central world figure in the two great disasters of this century - the Great Depression and World… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I was in charge of price controls in World War II and had a ceiling on overall prices. Everybody who was subject… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
There can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance.Past experience,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Things that come from the private sector are in abundant supply; things that depend on the public sector are widely a problem.… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In Europe and the United States the two decades following the Second World War will for long be remembered as a very… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Much of the world's work, it has been said, is done by men who do not feel quite well. Marx is a… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In a world where for pedagogic and other purposes a very large number of economists is required, an arrangement which discourages many… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Preservationists are the only people in the world who are invariably confirmed in their wisdom after the fact. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The attraction of power we take for granted in politics.. But in economics...the thrust...is for pecuniary return, for money. And I have… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share
“Men can labor to make sense out of single steps toward the goal without ever pausing to reflect that the goal itself is ludicrous.” — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share
Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share
That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share
Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share
If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share
Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share
World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare and spending… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share
Money is what fueled the industrial society. But in the informational society, the fuel, the power, is knowledge. One has now come to see… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share
While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share
Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy—what an older and less elegant… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share
Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed. In the absence of new developments, old ones may seem… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share
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