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Quotes by "J. K. Galbraith"

Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.
— J. K. Galbraith
Tags: america-and-americans
People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.
— J. K. Galbraith
Tags: capitalism
In economics, the majority is always wrong.
— J. K. Galbraith
Tags: capitalism
In all modern depressions, recessions, or growth-correction, as variously they are called, we never miss the goods that are not produced. We miss only the opportunities for the labour - for the jobs - that are not provided.
— J. K. Galbraith
Tags: capitalism
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
— J. K. Galbraith
Tags: food
Humour 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.
— J. K. Galbraith
Tags: humour-and-humorists
The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.
— J. K. Galbraith
Tags: women
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