John Kenneth Galbraith Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects. – John Kenneth Galbraith
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
John Kenneth Galbraith 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
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. – John Kenneth Galbraith
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. – John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith There’s a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars. – John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions. – John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. – John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. – John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability. – John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy. – John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith 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
