John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Power, Underwear, Assumed

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Culture, Speech, Wholly

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Wisdom, Enemy, Ideas

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

Time, Great, Between

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Long, Before, York

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Politics, Lose, Times

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

Beauty, Makes, Pursuit

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Truth, Wonderful, Seeing

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?
John Kenneth Galbraith

Why, Fiction, Biography

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Finance, Made, Often

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Economist

Born: October 15, 1908

Died: April 29, 2006

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