Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by whichthey have once won office. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
But now, as throughout history, financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In public administration good sense would seem to require the public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Increasingly in recent times we have come first to identify the remedy that is most agreeable, most convenient, most in accord with… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
From the fact of general well-being came the new position of the poor. They were now in most communities a minority. The… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Technology, under all circumstances, leads to planning; in its higher manifestations it may put the problems of planning beyond the reach of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I react pragmatically. Where the market works, I'm for that. Where the government is necessary, I'm for that. I'm deeply suspicious of… — 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
Financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated. Long-run salvation by men of business has never been highly regarded if it means… — 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
