Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future. — 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
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Any consideration of the life and larger social existence of the modern corporate man begins and also largely ends with the effect… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure… — 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
I would put primary emphasis on a good standard of living equitably distributed. It can't be equal, but one that eliminates the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Few things in life can be so appalling as the difference between a dry antiseptic statement of a principle by a well… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Food - taken to support life Wine - taken to enrichen life Food and Wine - taken to fulfill life — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I write with two things in mind. I want to be right with my fellow economists. After all, I've made my life… — 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
Economic life, as always, is a matrix in which result becomes cause and cause becomes result. — 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
