Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
| Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. ... | Read Full Quote |
| Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in ... | Read Full Quote |
| The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's olde ... | Read Full Quote |
| People fo privilage will always risk their complete des ... | Read Full Quote |
| Change comes not from men and women changing their mind ... | Read Full Quote |
| Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to t ... | Read Full Quote |
| The conventional view serves to protect us from the pai ... | Read Full Quote |
| One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to kno ... | Read Full Quote |
| Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. ... | Read Full Quote |
| In the choice between changing ones mind and proving th ... | Read Full Quote |
| Washington is a place where people praise courage and a ... | Read Full Quote |
| If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by ... | Read Full Quote |
| Few people at the beginning of the ninteenth century ne ... | Read Full Quote |
| In economics, the majority is always wrong. ... | Read Full Quote |
| A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is i ... | Read Full Quote |
| Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. ... | Read Full Quote |
| The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character- ... | Read Full Quote |
| Technology means the systematic application of scientif ... | Read Full Quote |
| The salary of the chief executive of the large corporat ... | Read Full Quote |
| Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it ... | Read Full Quote |
| Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that m ... | Read Full Quote |
| In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wr ... | Read Full Quote |
| Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no on ... | Read Full Quote |
| Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment f ... | Read Full Quote |
| You will find that the State is the kind of organizatio ... | Read Full Quote |
| It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in ... | Read Full Quote |
| Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do an ... | Read Full Quote |