John Kenneth Galbraith quotes - Page : 10

" This is what economics now does. It tells the young and susceptible (and also the old and vulnerable) that economic life has no content of power and politics because the firm is safely subordinate to the market and the state and for this reason it is safely at the command of the consumer and citizen. Such an economics is not neutral. It is the influential and invaluable ally of those whose exercise of power depends on an acquiescent public. If the state is the executive committee of the great corporation and the planning system, it is partly because neoclassical economics is its instrument for neutralizing the suspicion that this is so. " # Committees and Meetings # Politicians and Politics # Business

" A nuclear war does not defend a country and it does not defend a system. I've put it the same way many times; not even the most accomplished ideologue will be able to tell the difference between the ashes of capitalism and the ashes of communism. " # Capitalism # War # World Affairs

" The huge capacity to purchase submission that goes with any large sum of money, well, this we have. This is a power of which we should all be aware. " # Money # Power # Change

" Both we and the Soviets face the common threat of nuclear destruction and there is no likelihood that either capitalism or communism will survive a nuclear war. " # World Affairs # War # Capitalism

" Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. " # Politicians and Politics # Choice # Arts and Artists

" Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. " # Meetings

" It is possible that people need to believe they are unmanaged if they are to be managed effectively. " # Quotations # Management # Belief

" When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic. " # Quotations # Teachers and Teaching # Ignorance

" More die in the United States of too much food than of too little. " # Food # Food and Eating # Death and Dying

" Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. " # Meetings