There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
John Kenneth GalbraithThe inborn instability of capitalism has been part of the history of the system for several hundred years, including recurrent speculative episodes. There should be no doubt in anyone's mind that we're now having another one of those speculative episodes.
John Kenneth GalbraithI am for a close global association in trade and financial matters, rather than the opposite possibility of excessive nationalism, as manifested in the two world wars.
John Kenneth GalbraithI have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country.
John Kenneth GalbraithI was in charge of price controls in World War II and had a ceiling on overall prices. Everybody who was subject to general maximum price regulation wanted an exception and went to Congress to persuade a Congressman, or a group of people on the Hill, that I was being a menace to their industry.
John Kenneth Galbraith