Men are, in fact, either sustained by organization or they sustain organization. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Any country that has Milton Friedman as an adviser has nothing to fear from a few million Arabs. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If inheritance qualifies one for office, intelligence cannot be a requirement. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It's much easier to point out the problem than it is to say just how it should be solved. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce. — 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
Every corner of the public psyche is canvassed by some of the most talented citizens to see if the desire for some… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Educators have yet to realize how deeply the industrial system is dependent upon them. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It is not the individual's right to buy that is being protected. Rather, it is the seller's right to manage the individual. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It takes a certain brashness to attack the accepted economic legendsbut noneat all toperpetuatethem. So theyare perpetuated. — 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
