John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

We are living at the moment in revolutionary times. Argentineans probably are more aware of it than anybody else, because they tasted it several years earlier - but now the whole world is in trouble.

I feel that the world is in a really dangerous place and it scares me.

The United States reaps the thorns its rulers have planted in the world.

We're all hoping that Trump doesn't get our world on his terms because there won't be anything of it left. Trump is a true psychopath, a psychopath in the way that tragedy becomes tragedy.

Humans may be destroying their chances for decent survival. It won't kill everybody, but it would change the world dramatically.

Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.

If Trump was just a piddly-ass little hotel owner some place, having the kind of character and manners that he has, he would not be worth our notice. But because he's now been based to this huge stage, then his dimensions become immense. He's not a tragic figure because he doesn't have the capacity to be tragic. But the consequences of his life and his self now are immense; they're threatening to the world and to the sanctity of human life.

We've learned our lesson with finance because they made a huge goddamn explosion that almost shut down the world. But the thing I realized is that there might never be an explosion on the scale of the financial crisis happening with big data.

The actions and inactions of hundreds of millions of people and nearly 200 states, will affect what kind of world emerges in the time ahead.

If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart goes out of progressives throughout the world.

Now we are intimately locked together. You get swine flu in Mexico; it’s a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours later. Lehman Brothers goes down; the whole lot collapses. There are fires in the steppes of Russia; food riots in Africa.

So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants.

I am in the world to change the world.

When we change our thoughts, we can truly change the world.

Easier to destroy the world than to change capitalism even one little bit.

Saving the world happens one person at a time. Be at the front of the queue.

America and the world is not yet on the proper trajectory.

We can make an impression on this world if the world doesn't make too much impression on us.

Man seeks his own good at the whole world's cost.

Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool.

The world needs an enema.

Obama was quite serious when he said he was going to change the world. And now he has a national crisis, a personal mandate, a pliant Congress, a desperate public - and, at his disposal, the greatest pot of money in galactic history.

How we eat can change the world

The first thing that I've got to think about is: What does a Donald Trump presidency mean for the people of my state and for the people of this country? And for the people of the world? I think it would be an absolute disaster. It would be beyond a disaster.

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.