The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth. Exposure to reality remains the nemesis of the great -- a little understood thing.
John Kenneth GalbraithIf we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.
John Kenneth GalbraithFrom the spring of 1941, I controlled all prices in the United States. You could lower a price without my permission, but you couldn't raise a price without my permission or that of my staff.
John Kenneth Galbraith