Money is what fueled the industrial society. But in the informational society, the fuel, the power, is knowledge. One has now come to see a new class structure divided by those who have information and those who must function out of ignorance. This new class has its power not from money, not from land, but from knowledge.
John Kenneth GalbraithNo nice philosophical point has ever been so decisively resolved as this: that those who are not conceived do not miss the pleasure of consuming the goods they do not get born to enjoy.
John Kenneth GalbraithNostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.
John Kenneth GalbraithWe can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.
John Kenneth GalbraithDecision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.
John Kenneth Galbraith