People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).

- John Kenneth Galbraith

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

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

- John Kenneth Galbraith

The huge capacity to purchase submission that goes with any large sum of money, well, this we have. This is a power of which we should all be aware.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

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

- John Kenneth Galbraith

No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services, educa…

- John Kenneth Galbraith