"We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal...
Then the shit hit the fan.
More John Kenneth Galbraith quotes
"There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations.
"We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
"One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
"A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
"More die in the United States of too much food than of too little
"Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
"Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
"None of this excuses anyone from mastering the basic ideas and terminology of economics. The intelligent layman must expect also to encounter good eco...
"That economics has a considerable conceptual apparatus with an appropriate terminology can not be a serious ground for complaint. Economic phenomena, ...
"Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at hand. It is not enough to...
"The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously and s...
"The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence has occurred because what is convenient has become...
"Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
"In economics, it is often professionally better to be associated with highly respectable error than uncertainly established truth.