The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture. John Kenneth Galbraith Read Quote
There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose. John Kenneth Galbraith Read Quote
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. John Kenneth Galbraith Read Quote
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 Read Quote
By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man. John Kenneth Galbraith Read Quote
The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo. John Kenneth Galbraith Read Quote
It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation. John Kenneth Galbraith Read Quote
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy. John Kenneth Galbraith Read Quote
Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects. John Kenneth Galbraith Read Quote
There’s a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars. John Kenneth Galbraith Read Quote