The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. — 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
I think the role of the Federal Reserve is enormously exaggerated. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The notion of a formal structure of command must be abandoned. It is more useful to think of the mature corporation as… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It's great to be with William Buckley, because you don't have to think. He takes a position and you automatically take the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I think without a doubt, that what is called "financial genius" is merely a rising market. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I feel very angry when I think of brilliant, or even interesting, women whose minds are wasted on a home. Better have… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Let’s begin with capitalism, a word that has gone largely out of fashion. The approved reference now is to the market system.… — 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
