John Kenneth Galbraith's Quotes

John Kenneth Galbraith's Quotes 60

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral...

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were...

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to...

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still...

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although...

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and...

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what...

Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality...

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by...

In the United States though power corrupts the expectation of power...

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's...

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral...

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

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