John Kenneth Galbraith

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events…

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes…

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either…

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

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

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence…

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

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so…

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

War remains the decisive human failure…

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

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable…

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit…

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have…

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals…