Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
John Kenneth Galbraith
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
John Kenneth Galbraith
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
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
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism it's just the opposite.
John Kenneth Galbraith
