John Kenneth Galbraith

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

"Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative."

"Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not."

"Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory."

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

"The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events."

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."

"The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself."

"War remains the decisive human failure."