We shall have a race of men who are strong on telemetry and space communications but who cannot read anything but a… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Over the span of man's history, although a phenomenal amount of education, persuasion, indoctrination and incantation have been devoted to the effort,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Complexity and obscurity have professional value - they are the academic equivalents of apprenticeship rules in the building trades. They exclude the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
There are a significant number of learned men and women who hold that any successful effort to make ideas lively, intelligible and… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The income men derive from producing things of slight consequence is of great consequence. The production reflects the low marginal utility of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence has occurred because what is convenient has become sacrosanct.… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
No hungry man who is also sober can be persuaded to use his last dollar for anything but food. — 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
