War remains the decisive human failure.
John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
John Kenneth Galbraith

In economics, the majority is always wrong.
John Kenneth Galbraith

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
John Kenneth Galbraith

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
John Kenneth Galbraith