Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. John Kenneth Galbraith Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised. John Kenneth Galbraith Read Quote
Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied. John Kenneth Galbraith Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear. John Kenneth Galbraith Read Quote
There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth. John Kenneth Galbraith Read Quote