John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Food, People, House

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1968). “American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power”, p.97, Transaction Publishers

• In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions of advanced intoxication. This is a fact of the utmost importance for the visitor of limited funds... for it means that the most expensive restaurants are, with rare exceptions, the worst.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Food, Mean, Alcohol

• That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification of our culture.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Looks, Needs, Culture

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1968). “The New Industrial State”

• The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Thinking, Culture, Speech

• Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Sex, Political, Vacuums

• We live surrounded by a systematic appeal to a dream world which all mature, scientific reality would reject. We, quite literally, advertise our commitment to immaturity, mendacity and profound gullibility. It is as the hallmark of the culture. And it is justified as being economically indispensable.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Dream, Commitment, Reality

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2001). “The Essential Galbraith”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Vacuums, Culture, Oratory

  984 Speech at the American University, Washington DC. Quoted in Time magazine, 18 Jun.

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