3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith 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 ignorance but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it’s just the opposite.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith 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.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
