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You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
By John Kenneth Galbraith
Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.
By John Kenneth Galbraith
Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.
By John Kenneth Galbraith
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
By John Kenneth Galbraith
The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself.
By John Kenneth Galbraith
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
By John Kenneth Galbraith
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.
By John Kenneth Galbraith
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.
By John Kenneth Galbraith
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
By John Kenneth Galbraith
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor.
By John Kenneth Galbraith
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.
By John Kenneth Galbraith
People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills, and the other familiar furniture of economic development.... But we are coming to realize... that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.
By John Kenneth Galbraith
People fo privilage will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.
By John Kenneth Galbraith
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
By John Kenneth Galbraith
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought.
By John Kenneth Galbraith
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
By John Kenneth Galbraith
In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
By John Kenneth Galbraith
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
By John Kenneth Galbraith
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
By John Kenneth Galbraith
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.
By John Kenneth Galbraith
Few people at the beginning of the ninteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
By John Kenneth Galbraith
Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.
By John Kenneth Galbraith
A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
By John Kenneth Galbraith
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
By John Kenneth Galbraith
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
By John Kenneth Galbraith
The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.
By John Kenneth Galbraith