John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes About Well Being

Quotes about: Well Being

• From the fact of general well-being came the new position of the poor. They were now in most communities a minority. The voice of the people was now the voice of relative affluence. Politicians in pursuit of votes could be expected to have a diminishing concern for the very poor. Compassion would have to serve instead - an uncertain substitute.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Compassion, Voice, People

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1981). “A life in our times: memoirs”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Over the span of man's history, although a phenomenal amount of education, persuasion, indoctrination and incantation have been devoted to the effort, ordinary people have never been quite persuaded that toil is as agreeable as its alternatives. Thus to take increased well-being partly in the form of more goods and partly in the form of more leisure is unquestionably rational.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, People, Effort

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1971). “The affluent society”

• The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Challenges, Age, Contentment

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “The Culture of Contentment”, p.122, Princeton University Press

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