J. K. Galbraith

Quotes

• “In all modern depressions recessions or growth-correction as variously they are called we never miss the goods that ...”
• “If a man didn't make sense the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better that ...”
• “I was brought up in southwestern Ontario where we were taught that Canadian patriotism should not withstand anything mor...”
• “Humour is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention. But it has ...”
• “People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advanta...”
• “Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.”
• “No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself.”
• “The more underdeveloped the country the more overdeveloped the women.”
• “In economics the majority is always wrong.”