32 quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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

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“Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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“Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“War remains the decisive human failure.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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“Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“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.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“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.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“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.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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“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.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“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.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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