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• Talk of revolution is one way of avoiding reality. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
• 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.
  -- John Kenneth Galbraith, Guardian (London, 28 July 1989)...
• Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
• One does not have to keep bad governments in to keep Communists out. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
• One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
  -- John Kenneth Galbraith, in "Time", 1961...
• You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
  -- John Kenneth Galbraith...
• Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
• Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future.
  -- John Kenneth Galbraith...
• If both Alsops say it's true, it can't be so. -- John Kenneth Galbraith