The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man’s greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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