Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
You still don't like the idea of gay marriage? Then, as my friend the economist Julianne Malveaux says: Don't marry a gay… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
War cannot be used as a means to prevent or abolish wars. ... The idea of a war to prevent war is… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Feminists have not tried to "destroy the family". We just thought the family was such a good idea that men might want… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
What would it mean in practice to eliminate all the 'negative people' from one's life [as demanded by motivational speaker J.P. Maroney]?… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The only truly new ideas [the right] has come up with in the last twenty years are (1) supply side economics, which… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
What would it mean in practice to eliminate all the 'negative people' from one's life [as demanded by motivational speaker J.P. Maroney]? It might… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Wars produce warlike societies, which in turn make the world more dangerous for other societies, which are thus recruited into being war-prone themselves. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Some people make stuff; other people have to buy it. And when we gave up making stuff, starting in the 1980s, we were left… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Robert Jackall’s book [ Moral Mazes ] impressed on me that corporate dress serves a far more important function than mere body covering. “Proper… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
war is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. ... the poor and the middle class were shaken down, and… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Marriage probably originated as a straightforward food-for-sex deal among foraging primates. Compatibility was not a big issue, nor, of course, was there any tension… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in the Old… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image