Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.
John Kenneth GalbraithNo solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services, education or money, income is an excellent antidote for deprivation. No truth has spawned so much ingenious evasion.
John Kenneth GalbraithThe man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.
John Kenneth GalbraithTo see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.
John Kenneth Galbraith