Quotes by Galbraith, John Kenneth

There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to thin >>

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thi >>

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York >>

Quotations about Age and Aging

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, t >>

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave. >>

How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the m >>

An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth