The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Economics is not an exact science.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Power is as power does.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Men are, in fact, either sustained by organization or they sustain organization.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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