She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that she does not take seriously the intellectual decline. Having given up the Empire and the mass production of industrial goods, Britain's future lay in its scientific and artistic pre-eminence. Mrs Thatcher will be long remembered for the damage she has done.
John Kenneth GalbraithPeople who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
John Kenneth GalbraithWhen you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover.
John Kenneth GalbraithFranklin Delano Roosevelt and J.F Kennedy were Presidents in very different times.
John Kenneth GalbraithPeople of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.
John Kenneth GalbraithWe talk of the enormous virtues of work, but it turns out that that is mostly for the poor. If you're rich enough or if you're a college professor, the virtue lies in leisure and the use you make of your leisure time.
John Kenneth GalbraithThe stock market is but a mirror which provides an image of the underlying or fundamental economic situation. Cause and effect run from the economy to the stock market, never the reverse. In 1929 the economy was headed for trouble. Eventually that trouble was violently reflected in Wall Street.
John Kenneth Galbraith