The modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures.
John Kenneth GalbraithNo intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself.
John Kenneth GalbraithI have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country.
John Kenneth GalbraithThe traveler to the United States will do wellto prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others.
John Kenneth Galbraith