Galbraith, John Kenneth (John Kenneth Galbraith)

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith

Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith

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