The individual serves the planning system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it far more by consuming its products.
John Kenneth GalbraithIf people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.
John Kenneth GalbraithBut now, as throughout history, financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated.
John Kenneth GalbraithThere's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater. What do we worry about? We worry about our schools. We worry about our public recreational facilities. We worry about our law enforcement and our public housing. All of the things that bear upon our standard of living are in the public sector.
John Kenneth Galbraith