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
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not. — John Kenneth Galbraith
If we were not in vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves. — John Kenneth Galbraith
It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Nonetheless, there must be a speech: speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Once the visitor was told rather repetitively that this city was the melting pot; — John Kenneth Galbraith
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. — John Kenneth Galbraith
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. — John Kenneth Galbraith
The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. — John Kenneth Galbraith
It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless. — John Kenneth Galbraith
The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. — John Kenneth Galbraith
It’s a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it. — John Kenneth Galbraith
The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering — John Kenneth Galbraith
In economics it is a far, far wiser thing to be right than to be consistent. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving there is no need to do so — John Kenneth Galbraith
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. — John Kenneth Galbraith
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. — John Kenneth Galbraith
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; — John Kenneth Galbraith
We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us. — John Kenneth Galbraith
The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed — John Kenneth Galbraith
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. — 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