Why is anything intrinsically so valueless so obviously desirable? — 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 almost as important to know what is not serious as to know what is. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Much discussion of money involves a heavy overlay of priestly incantation. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars. — 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
Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work. — 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… — 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
Any country that has Milton Friedman as an adviser has nothing to fear from a few million Arabs. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Agreeable as it is to know where one is proceeding, it is far more important to know where one has arrived. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The fully planned economy, so far from being unpopular, is warmly regarded by those who know it best. — 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
