Quotes by : J. K. Galbraith

Humour is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention.....

In economics the majority is always wrong.

People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part....

In all modern depressions recessions or growth-correction as variously they are called we never miss....

If a man didn't make sense the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing....

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor.

No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself.

A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.

The more underdeveloped the country the more overdeveloped the women.

I was brought up in southwestern Ontario where we were taught that Canadian patriotism should not withstand....