John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• Complexity and obscurity have professional value - they are the academic equivalents of apprenticeship rules in the building trades. They exclude the outsiders, keep down the competition, preserve the image of a privileged or priestly class. The man who makes things clear is a scab. He is criticized less for his clarity than for his treachery.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, Class, Competition

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1980). “Annals of an Abiding Liberal”, Plume

• The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Character, Wealth, Building

• Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Humor, Attention, Economy

• She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that she does not take seriously the intellectual decline. Having given up the Empire and the mass production of industrial goods, Britain's future lay in its scientific and artistic pre-eminence. Mrs Thatcher will be long remembered for the damage she has done.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Regret, Science, Reflection

• The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Produce, Ability, Value Systems

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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