John Kenneth Galbraith
  • By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

  • In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

  • Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

  • Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

  • There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.