John Kenneth Galbraith

"It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought."

"The values of a society totally preoccupied with making money are not altogether reassuring."

"Moreover, regulatory bodies, like the people who comprise them, have a marked life cycle. In youth they are vigorous, aggressive, evangelistic, and even intolerant. Later they mellow, and in old age — after a matter of ten or fifteen years — they become, with some exceptions, either an arm of the industry they are regulating or senile."

"A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness."

"But there is still a considerable difference between a failure to do enough that is right and a determination to do much that is wrong."

"In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong."