In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. John Kenneth Galbraith Read Quote
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not. John Kenneth Galbraith Read Quote
A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions. John Kenneth Galbraith Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. John Kenneth Galbraith Read Quote
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. John Kenneth Galbraith Read Quote
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. John Kenneth Galbraith Read Quote
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. John Kenneth Galbraith Read Quote
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 Read Quote
