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John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the american economist John Kenneth Galbraith on topics like people, economics, states

  • More die in the United States from too much food that from too little.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on food
    24
  • In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on power
    19
  • Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on virtue
    10
  • There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on politics
    9
  • Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on wealth
    9
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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 on society
    9
  • People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on virtue
    7
  • 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 on politics
    6
  • There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty.

    That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on beauty
    5
  • Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on politics
    5
  • More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on food
    5
  • There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on wealth
    5
  • About John Kenneth Galbraith

    Name John Kenneth Galbraith
    Quotes 83 quotations
    Nationality American
    Profession Economist
    Birthday October 15, 1908
    About John Kenneth Galbraith, OC (October 15, 1908–April 29, 2006) was a Canadian-American economist. He was a Keynesian and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism and progressivism. His books on economic topics were bestsellers in the 1950s and the 1960s.Galbraith was a prolific author who produced four dozen books and over a thousand articles on various subjects.
    Top topics people, economics, states, politics, united
  • If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on mistakes
    4
  • Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on committee
    4
  • Politics is not the art of the possible.

    It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on politics
    4
  • One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on wisdom
    3
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  • In the choice between changing one's mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on choice
    3
  • A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on buying
    3
  • 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 on humor
    3
  • The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on wealth
    3
  • It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on anchor
    3
  • The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.

    S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on technology
    3
  • There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on majority
    3
  • The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on conventional
    2
  • If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on brows
    2
  • The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on humanity
    2
  • Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on wealth
    2
  • We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on pessimism
    2
  • 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 on wealth
    2
  • Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on politics
    2
  • 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.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on business
    2
  • Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on busy
    2
  • All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

    The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on revolution
    1
  • The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on banks
    1
  • War remains the decisive human failure.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on war
    1
  • It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put on the troubled seas of thought.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on nonsense
    1
  • In economics the majority is always wrong.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on economics
    1
  • Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on government
    1
  • The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its products.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on consumerism
    1
  • 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.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on criticism
    1
  • No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom.

    Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on boredom
    1
  • In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on busy
    0
  • You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on things
    0
  • Among all the world's races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the consequence of any special preference for mendacity, although at the higher levels of their public administration that tendency is impressive. It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on information
    0
  • By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on trouble
    0
  • Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on committee
    0
  • All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on door
    0
  • We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on biography
    0
  • Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on beginning
    0
  • Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

    — John Kenneth Galbraith on work
    0
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    • politics
    • times
    • side
    • lose
    • wealth
    • improbable
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