John Kenneth Galbraith

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.

In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.