John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

  • The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
    ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
  • When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.Upload to Facebook
    When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.
    ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
    ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
    ~ 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.
    ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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