Famous Quotes / John Kenneth Galbraith
71 Quotations by John Kenneth Galbraith
- 41. The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.
- 42. The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
- 43. The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ...
- 44. The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
- 45. The critics were asking that we postpone consideration of the causes of poverty until no one was poo ...
- 46. The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
- 47. The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and ...
- 48. The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.
- 49. The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier ...
- 50. The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.
- 51. The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, th ...
- 52. The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
- 53. The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing ...
- 54. The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It i ...
- 55. The traveler to the United States will do well to prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the ...
- 56. There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports ...
- 57. There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
- 58. There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which fea ...
- 59. There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so inter ...
- 60. There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.