John Kenneth Galbraith “Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.” John Kenneth Galbraith View all quotes by 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
“Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.” John Kenneth Galbraith
“It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.” John Kenneth Galbraith
