John Kenneth Galbraith Life Quotations

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.

Few things in life can be so appalling as the difference between a dry antiseptic statement of a principle by a well spoken man in a quiet office, and what happens to people when that principle is put into practice.

There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater.

The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.

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

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.