Quotes by 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.”

“Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.”

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

“By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.”

“In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.”

“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 ...”

“The members of the functional and socially mobilized under class must, in some very real way, be seen as the architects of their own fate. If not, they could be, however marginally, on the conscien...”

“There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.”

“When people are least sure they are often most dogmatic.”

“If all else fails immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.”

“I have never understood why one's affections must be confined as once with women to a single country.”

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

“In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.”

“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.”

“War remains the decisive human failure.”

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

“When people are least sure they are often most dogmatic.”

“If all else fails immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.”

“I have never understood why one's affections must be confined as once with women to a single country.”