John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

  • War remains the decisive human failure.

  • In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

  • Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

  • Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.