John Kenneth Galbraith Art Quotations

Because of his compassion Owen was always in trouble with his partners. They would have much preferred a tough, down-to-earth manager who would get a days work out of the little bastards.

My rule on honorary degrees has always been to have one more than Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the United States or in the Soviet Union, is rarely hostile to the institutions - the private business enterprise, the Communist Party - that reflect the dominant economic power. Not to notice this takes effort, although many succeed.

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

Third party politics, at least since La Follette, has always had an element of romance.

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