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John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

American - Economist | October 15, 1908 - April 29, 2006

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Politics People Think More Reason

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

Treat Meaning Others Right Scholar

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

Economics American Boredom Say Minds

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Love Worth Majority Who Billion

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Power Will Underwear Something Like

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Money Important Automobile Mistress

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Politics Memory Short Nothing

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

Finance Wealth Never Without Been

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Food Die Too Much More Little Than

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Beginning People Tell Century Wanted

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Art Politics Possible Between

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Culture Think Speech Manifestation

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