Men are, in fact, either sustained by organization or they sustain organization. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in… — 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
Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
From the fact of general well-being came the new position of the poor. They were now in most communities a minority. The… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In fact, the wage-price spiral is the functional counterpart of unemployment. The latter occurs when there is insufficient demand; the spiral operates… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions… — 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
Seaboard Air Line, which was thought by numerous innocents to provide a foothold in aviation, was another favorite, although, in fact, it… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It is a well known and very important fact that America's founding fathers did not like taxation without representation. It is a… — 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 Image
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply. — 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
Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations. — 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 and spending… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
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 Image
While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
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 Image
