The Good Society Quotes

“Nothing in modern attitudes is believed more to signify exceptional intelligence than association with large pools of money. Only immediate experience with those so situated denies the myth.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith, The Good Society: The Humane Agenda – The Interplay of Economics and Political Forces Explained with Clarity

“Here in briefest form is the modern political dialectic. It is an unequal contest: the rich and the comfortable have influence and money. And they vote. The concerned and the poor have numbers, but many of the poor, alas, do not vote. There is democracy, but in no slight measure it is a democracy of the fortunate.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith, The Good Society: The Humane Agenda

“In the modern economy, a slightly bizarre fact, production is now more necessary for the employment it provides than for the goods and services it supplies.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith, The Good Society: The Humane Agenda