Get the process of negotiation away from the small specialized group that some people have called the "nuclear theologians" ... Only a few people can understand the nature of these weapons ... This kept the whole discussion to a very limited group of people who, in a way, had assumed responsibility for saying whether we should live or die.
John Kenneth GalbraithCommencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.
John Kenneth GalbraithInventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.
John Kenneth GalbraithWisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.
John Kenneth GalbraithThe modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures.
John Kenneth Galbraith