Third party politics, at least since La Follette, has always had an element of romance. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas; most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime. — 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
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
SOME YEARS, like some poets,and politicians and some lovely women, are singled out for fame far beyond the common lot, and 1929… — 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
It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the… — 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
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. — 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
A very complicated mass of things influences the economy - the speculative effect, government policy, consumer borrowing and spending, the level of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Those who yearn for the end of capitalism should pray for government by men who believe that all positive action is inimical… — 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
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
The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The attraction of power we take for granted in politics.. But in economics...the thrust...is for pecuniary return, for money. And I have… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not… — 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
No politician can praise unemployment or inflation, and there is no way of combining high employment with stable prices that does not… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
And there was a deeper, less visible effect of the Truman loyalty program. Seeing its consequences for certain individuals and fearing its… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In the old days, land was important as the giver of all things. That period is gone now. Technology and brainpower are… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I've become accustomed to supporting politicians who are more conservative than I am. This is not entirely a surprise. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
You will find that [the] State [Department] is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
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
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If it is dangerous to suppose that government is always right, it will sooner or later be awkward for public administration if… — 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
No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself. — 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
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