John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
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Economists are generally negligent of their heroes.
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It is in the long run that the corporation lives.
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In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
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But there is still a considerable difference between a failure to do enough that is right and a determination to do much that is wrong.
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You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
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It's a rule worth having in mind. Income almost always flows along the same axis as power but in the opposite direction.
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The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.
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If inheritance qualifies one for office, intelligence cannot be a requirement.
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One must always have in mind one simple fact - there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and there is no illiterate population that is anything but poor.
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Ideas may be superior to vested interest. They are also very often the children of vested interest.
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It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.
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One of the uses of depression is the exposure of what auditors fail to find.
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Men are, in fact, either sustained by organization or they sustain organization.
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Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego. It is well no doubt, to reflect on how much one owes to others.
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Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.
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There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.
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A drastic reduction in weapons competition following a general release from the commitment to the Cold War would be sharply in conflict with the needs of the industrial system.
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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.
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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.
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But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it.
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A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
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People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
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No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares of General Motors or General Electric.
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.