John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

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

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Meetings are a great trap. … they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

You will find that [the] State [Department] is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.