The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“The process by which money is created is so simple that the mind is repelled.” — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The miserable consumption of the poor is partly the result of the ostentatious demands of the rich. There isn't enough for both,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Poverty" Pitt exclaimed "is no disgrace but it is damned annoying." In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The individual serves the planning system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it far more by… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts.… — 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
A [New Yorker ] is what it has always been. It combines those who pursue the truth with those who pursue the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
We talk of the enormous virtues of work, but it turns out that that is mostly for the poor. If you're rich… — 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
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share
“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
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
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
Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share
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
Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share
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
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
While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share
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
Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy—what an older and less elegant… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share
Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed. In the absence of new developments, old ones may seem… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share
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