John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

I have never understood why one's affections must be confined as once with women to a single country.

If all else fails immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

When people are least sure they are often most dogmatic.

The members of the functional and socially mobilized under class must, in some very real way, be seen as the architects of their own fate. If not, they could be, however marginally, on the conscience of the comfortable. There could be a disturbing feeling, however fleeting, of unease, even guilt.

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... & ... Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.–

One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read.

The capacity for erroneous belief is very great, especially where it coincides with convenience.

If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale