John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes


You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too. - John Kenneth Galbraith



Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will. - John Kenneth Galbraith



When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it. - John Kenneth Galbraith



When people are the least sure, they are often the most dogmatic. - John Kenneth Galbraith