John Kenneth Galbraith Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old John Kenneth Galbraith quotes, John Kenneth Galbraith sayings, and John Kenneth Galbraith proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. John Kenneth Galbraith
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence. John Kenneth Galbraith
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
Politics is not the art of the impossible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. John Kenneth Galbraith
Only the man who finds everything wrong and expects it to get worse is thought to have a clear brain. John Kenneth Galbraith
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little. John Kenneth Galbraith
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought. John Kenneth Galbraith
In economics, the majority is always wrong. John Kenneth Galbraith
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
A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation. John Kenneth Galbraith
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith