Contact is the best medicine against hate, racism and prejudice. It's something that we should be very wary of, the more segregation… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“In his 1971 State of the Union address, Nixon considered his plan to “place a floor under the income of every family… — Rutger Bregman Family Copy Share Image
“A person living at the poverty line in the U.S. belongs to the richest 14% of the world population; someone earning a… — Rutger Bregman Poverty Copy Share Image
When I talk about 'everyday communism', I am teasing a little. It is a provocative idea. But then we all do a… — Rutger Bregman Communism Copy Share Image
Only the work that generates money is allowed to count toward GDP. Little wonder, then, that we have organized education around feeding… — Rutger Bregman Education Copy Share Image
Our streets are very important for social cohesion, for feelings of safety, and we just surrendered all this to the car. But… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
My hope is that the corona crisis will help bring us into a new age of cooperation and solidarity and a realization… — Rutger Bregman Age Copy Share Image
I've solved my phone addiction by deleting all the apps I was addicted to - email, browser - and getting my wife… — Rutger Bregman Addiction Copy Share Image
Well, the news is mostly about things that go wrong, right? It's about sensationalist incidents that happened today, instead of things that… — Rutger Bregman End of the day Copy Share Image
“Productive women, seniors, or immigrants won’t displace men, young adults, or hardworking citizens from their jobs. In fact, they create more employment… — Rutger Bregman Workforce Copy Share Image
“Recently, the International Monetary Fund published a report which revealed that too much inequality even inhibits economic growth.22 Perhaps the most fascinating… — Rutger Bregman Economic growth Copy Share Image
“Fighting poverty has huge benefits that we have been blind to until now,” Shafir points out. In fact, he suggests, in addition… — Rutger Bregman Poverty Copy Share Image
“If there’s one thing that we capitalists have in common with the communists of old, it’s a pathological obsession with gainful employment.… — Rutger Bregman Capitalism Copy Share Image
It's actually more than 700 case studies that show that, especially in times of crisis, we show our best selves. And we… — Rutger Bregman Altruism Copy Share Image
If I say most people are pretty decent that may sound nice and warm but actually it's really radical and subversive and… — Rutger Bregman Anarchists Copy Share Image
I've been thinking that school, or certainly the traditional English public school model, is like a prison, in that you can't get… — Rutger Bregman Bullying Copy Share Image
“We need a new lodestar, a new map of the world that once again includes a distant, uncharted continent – “Utopia.” By… — Rutger Bregman Dreams Copy Share Image
“Anybody who forays outside the “Overton window” faces a rocky road. He or she will quickly be branded as “unrealistic” or “unreasonable”… — Rutger Bregman Different opinions Copy Share Image
We so often tend to think our democracies are ruled by procedures and laws, but they are also governed by implicit rules… — Rutger Bregman Ability Copy Share Image
Societies tend to presume that poor people are unable to handle money. If they had any, people reason, the poor and homeless… — Rutger Bregman Education Copy Share Image
Remember: real politics isn't about figureheads and seats in parliament. Real politics is about ideas. And there can be no doubt regarding… — Rutger Bregman Doubt Copy Share Image
From Scotland to India, and from Silicon Valley to Kenya, policymakers all over the world have become interested in basic income as… — Rutger Bregman Poverty Copy Share Image
Nowadays excessive work and pressure are status symbols. Time to oneself is sooner equated with unemployment and laziness, certainly in countries where… — Rutger Bregman Laziness Copy Share Image
The great thing about money is that people can use it to buy things they need instead of things self-appointed experts think… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“Not coincidentally, the countries with the shortest workweeks also have the largest number of volunteers and the most social capital.” — Rutger Bregman Social capital Copy Share Image
But the underdog socialists' biggest problem isn't that they are wrong. They are not. Their biggest problem is that they're dull. Dull… — Rutger Bregman Biggest problem Copy Share Image
Most people would say the meaning of life is to make the world a little more beautiful, or nicer, or more interesting.… — Rutger Bregman Beautiful Copy Share Image
“we can turn to a study by the Center for Immigration Studies–a think tank that opposes immigration–which found that immigration has virtually… — Rutger Bregman Education Copy Share Image
“In the twenty-first century, the real elite are those born not in the right family or the right class but in the… — Rutger Bregman Elite Copy Share Image
Countries with short workweeks consistently top gender' equality rankings. The central issue is achieving a more equitable distribution of work. — Rutger Bregman Equality Copy Share Image
Poor people aren't making dumb decisions because they are dumb, but because they're living in a context in which anyone would make… — Rutger Bregman Context Copy Share Image
A lot of great things are going on. In many ways, the past 30 years have been the best in world history.… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Children are born as emphatic and compassionate beings - so you don't have to teach them generosity, it's in their nature to… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“Even so, I think historians have more to offer than perspective on our present woes. The foreign country we call the past… — Rutger Bregman Foreign country Copy Share Image
It's important to make a distinction between the news and journalism. The news is about recent, incidental and sensational events. It's mostly… — Rutger Bregman Events Copy Share Image
“If a political party or a religious sect had even a fraction of the influence that the advertising industry has on us… — Rutger Bregman Advertising industry Copy Share Image
A universal basic income would be the best way to give everyone the opportunity to do more unpaid but incredibly important work,… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“Researchers at Yale University have shown that educated people are more unshakable in their convictions than anybody.” — Rutger Bregman Educated people Copy Share Image
In the past 20 years scientists from very diverse disciplines - anthropologists, archaeologists, sociologists, psychologists - have all moved to a much… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“Borders are the single biggest cause of discrimination in all of world history. Inequality gaps between people living in the same country… — Rutger Bregman Borders Copy Share Image
