John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes About Wealth
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In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.
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Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
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Let’s begin with capitalism, a word that has gone largely out of fashion. The approved reference now is to the market system. This shift minimizes - indeed, deletes - the role of wealth in the economic and social system. And it sheds the adverse connotation going back to Marx. Instead of the owners of capital or their attendants in control, we have the admirably impersonal role of market forces. It would be hard to think of a change in terminology more in the interest of those to whom money accords power. They have now a functional anonymity.
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The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.
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The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.
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Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
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The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
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