Quotes by : John Kenneth Galbraith

The members of the functional and socially mobilized under class must, in some very real way, be seen....

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

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

Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts....

Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the....

The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence has....

War remains the decisive human failure.

The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form....

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

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