John Galbraith Quotations

The overwhelming idea I would like to see is some end in Washington to this enormous preoccupation with sex, as it gives an opening for speech to anybody who's had any experience with it,

The total alteration in underlying circumstances has not been squarely faced, As a result, we are guided, in part, by ideas that are relevant to another world. ... We do many things that are unnecessary, some that are unwise, and a few that are insane.

The traveler to the United States will do well to prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others.

these are the days when men... seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence; when originality is taken to be a mark of instability; and when, in minor modification of the scriptural parable, the bland lead the bland.

When people are the least sure, they are often the most dogmatic

Production only fills a void that it has itself created

Wisdom itself is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us

Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has said before

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.