Improbable Cases Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“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

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

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

Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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

While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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