Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

#John Kenneth Galbraith

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves...

#John Kenneth Galbraith

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

#John Kenneth Galbraith

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

#Advertising

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

#Bankers And Banks

In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the...

#Bankers And Banks

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the...

#Books

There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When...

#Diplomacy

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

#Speech

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

#Economics

In economics it is a far, far wiser thing to be right than to be...

#Economics

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

#Economics