Best John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
- No politician can praise unemployment or inflation, and there is no way of combining high employment with stable prices that does not involve some control… All
- Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857, 1869, 1873, 1907,… Always Marked
- No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services,… Antidote
- Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs to be done;… All
- World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare and spending for… Capitalism
- Happiness does not require an expanding economy Business
- There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose. Inspirational
- The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and… Aspect
- People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage. Advantage
- The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth. Behavior
- Emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends. All
- One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their… Celebrated
- In numerous years following the war, the Federal Government ran a heavy surplus. It could not (however) pay off its debt, retire its securities, because… Bank
- 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 somebody who says,… Case
- From the fact of general well-being came the new position of the poor. They were now in most communities a minority. The voice of the… Affluence
- Anyone who says he won't resign four times, will. Anyone
- The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt. Dirt
- In public administration good sense would seem to require the public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to minimize the eventual… Administration
- The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are. Denied
- Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches… Commencement
- It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest. Charles
- These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy… Accepted
- We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking… Better
- One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done. Already Done
- In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd. Behaviour
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