What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure and enhancing caloric intake above any conceivable nutritional requirement.
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 GalbraithPreservationists are the only people in the world who are invariably confirmed in their wisdom after the fact.
John Kenneth GalbraithEmancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends.
John Kenneth Galbraith