John Kenneth Galbraith Time Quotations

Increasingly in recent times we have come first to identify the remedy that is most agreeable, most convenient, most in accord with major pecuniary or political interest, the one that reflects our available faculty for action; then we move from the remedy so available or desired back to a cause to which that remedy is relevant.

In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.

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