Quotes by : J. K. Galbraith

Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.....

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....

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

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.

Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.....