458 Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn’t know itself.

To proclaim the need for new ideas has served, in some measure, as a substitute for them.

Politics is not the art of the impossible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Only the man who finds everything wrong and expects it to get worse is thought to have a clear brain.

A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. under communism, its just the opposite.

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.