19 Quotes by John Galbraith

Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

Several times I concluded that there was too much detail; always I returned to continue and enjoy the book.

On the first of January of 1929, as a simple matter of probability, it was most likely that the boom would end before the year was out, ... The market wouldn't level out; it would fall precipitately.

The overwhelming idea I would like to see is some end in Washington to this enormous preoccupation with sex, as it gives an opening for speech to anybody who's had any experience with it,

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put on the troubled seas of thought.

Wisdom itself is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us

We are on the edge of a total end to civilized existenceon this planet, perhaps the end of life itself.

When people are the least sure, they are often the most dogmatic