--- title: "14 Ifs Quotes By Barbara Ehrenreich" description: "14 Ifs quotes by Barbara Ehrenreich. Plus more from Barbara Ehrenreich and more Ifs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a82/barbara-ehrenreich-1204_culture_but-our-culture-is-in-truly-bad-shape-if_2317105.png" --- > [But our culture is in truly bad shape if we have come to define respecting something as the failure to set it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-ehrenreich/but-our-culture-is-in-truly-bad-shape-if-we-have-come-to-define/) [Barbara Ehrenreich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-ehrenreich/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a82/barbara-ehrenreich-1204_culture_but-our-culture-is-in-truly-bad-shape-if_2317105.png) > [If God cares about our puny species, then disasters prove that he is not all-powerful; and if he is all-powerful, then clearly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-ehrenreich/if-god-cares-about-our-puny-species-then-disasters-prove-that-he-is/) [Barbara Ehrenreich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-ehrenreich/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df9/barbara-ehrenreich-1204_care_if-god-cares-about-our-puny-species-then_2065129.jpg) > [If there is no God or no evidence of God and certainly no evidence of a very morally engaged god, then whatever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-ehrenreich/if-there-is-no-god-or-no-evidence-of-god-and-certainly-no-evidence-of/) [Barbara Ehrenreich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-ehrenreich/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de0/barbara-ehrenreich-1204_atheism_if-there-is-no-god-or-no-evidence-of-god_2978586.png) > [When our children are old enough, and if we can afford to, we send them to college, where ... the point is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-ehrenreich/when-our-children-are-old-enough-and-if-we-can-afford-to-we-send-them-2/) [Barbara Ehrenreich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-ehrenreich/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/345/barbara-ehrenreich-1204_acquire_when-our-children-are-old-enough-and-if_2374545.png) > [If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-ehrenreich/if-you-can-attribute-your-success-entirely-to-your-own-mental-effort/) [Barbara Ehrenreich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-ehrenreich/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ecf/barbara-ehrenreich-1204_attitude_if-you-can-attribute-your-success-entire_975743.png) > [we are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-ehrenreich/we-are-reaching-the-point-if-we-have-not-passed-it-already-where-the/) [Barbara Ehrenreich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-ehrenreich/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/596/barbara-ehrenreich-1204_america_we-are-reaching-the-point-if-we-have-not_2124694.png) > [It's even occurred to me, as a teeny little subversive whisper of a thought, that if we stop mowing the lawn right…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-ehrenreich/it-s-even-occurred-to-me-as-a-teeny-little-subversive-whisper-of-a/) [Barbara Ehrenreich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-ehrenreich/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbd/barbara-ehrenreich-1204_climate_it-s-even-occurred-to-me-as-a-teeny-litt_2528733.png) > [if you search the bible, you will find no reference to birth control or gay marriage, and you will not find a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-ehrenreich/if-you-search-the-bible-you-will-find-no-reference-to-birth-control/) [Barbara Ehrenreich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-ehrenreich/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/950/barbara-ehrenreich-1204_bible_if-you-search-the-bible-you-will-find-no_2900740.png) > [Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-ehrenreich/some-of-us-still-get-all-weepy-when-we-think-about-the-gaia/) [Barbara Ehrenreich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-ehrenreich/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72d/barbara-ehrenreich-1204_age_some-of-us-still-get-all-weepy-when-we-t_2200340.png) > [the seeker who embraces positive theology finds ... that you can have all that stuff in the mall, as well as the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-ehrenreich/the-seeker-who-embraces-positive-theology-finds-that-you-can-have-all/) [Barbara Ehrenreich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-ehrenreich/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54b/barbara-ehrenreich-1204_beautiful_the-seeker-who-embraces-positive-theolog_512042.jpg) > [our great common challenge ... is to free people from religion, get it out of our laws, our schools, our health systems,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-ehrenreich/our-great-common-challenge-is-to-free-people-from-religion-get-it-out/) [Barbara Ehrenreich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-ehrenreich/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a7/barbara-ehrenreich-1204_add_our-great-common-challenge-is-to-free-pe_2316170.png) > [Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-ehrenreich/thus-will-the-fondest-dream-of-phallic-science-be-realized-a-pristine/) [Barbara Ehrenreich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-ehrenreich/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5d/barbara-ehrenreich-1204_accelerate_thus-will-the-fondest-dream-of-phallic-s_460428.png) > [If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-ehrenreich/if-that-s-how-it-all-started-then-we-might-as-well-face-the-fact-that/) [Barbara Ehrenreich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-ehrenreich/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65f/barbara-ehrenreich-1204_bangs_if-that-s-how-it-all-started-then-we-mig_2751873.jpg) > [As a general rule, when something gets elevated to apple-pie status in the hierarchy of American values, you have to suspect that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-ehrenreich/as-a-general-rule-when-something-gets-elevated-to-apple-pie-status-in/) [Barbara Ehrenreich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-ehrenreich/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb3/barbara-ehrenreich-1204_american-values_as-a-general-rule-when-something-gets-el_1149653.png) ## Other authors on Ifs ## More by Barbara Ehrenreich > [Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-ehrenreich/money-does-not-bring-happiness-only-the-wherewithal-perhaps-to-endure/) [Barbara Ehrenreich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-ehrenreich/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-ehrenreich/yes-i-think-the-anti-wal-mart-is-costco-which-pays-much-better-and/) [Barbara Ehrenreich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-ehrenreich/) > [Jesus: a wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-ehrenreich/jesus-a-wine-guzzling-vagrant-and-precocious-socialist/) [Barbara Ehrenreich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-ehrenreich/) > [ 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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-ehrenreich/what-would-it-mean-in-practice-to-eliminate-all-the-negative-people/) [Barbara Ehrenreich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-ehrenreich/) > [Wars produce warlike societies, which in turn make the world more dangerous for other societies, which are thus recruited into being war-prone themselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-ehrenreich/wars-produce-warlike-societies-which-in-turn-make-the-world-more/) [Barbara Ehrenreich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-ehrenreich/) > [Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-ehrenreich/heads-of-state-are-notoriously-ill-prepared-for-their-mature-careers/) [Barbara Ehrenreich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-ehrenreich/) > [Some people make stuff; other people have to buy it. And when we gave up making stuff, starting in the 1980s, we were left…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-ehrenreich/some-people-make-stuff-other-people-have-to-buy-it-and-when-we-gave/) [Barbara Ehrenreich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-ehrenreich/) > [ “Robert Jackall’s book \[ Moral Mazes \] impressed on me that corporate dress serves a far more important function than mere body covering. “Proper… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-ehrenreich/robert-jackall-s-book-moral-mazes-impressed-on-me-that-corporate/) [Barbara Ehrenreich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-ehrenreich/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-ehrenreich/war-is-in-some-not-yet-entirely-defined-sense-a-self-replicating/) [Barbara Ehrenreich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-ehrenreich/) > [Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. ... the poor and the middle class were shaken down, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-ehrenreich/sometime-in-the-eighties-americans-had-a-new-set-of-traditional/) [Barbara Ehrenreich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-ehrenreich/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-ehrenreich/marriage-probably-originated-as-a-straightforward-food-for-sex-deal/) [Barbara Ehrenreich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-ehrenreich/) > [I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in the Old…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-ehrenreich/i-became-a-student-of-the-history-of-religion-i-am-fascinated-by-how/) [Barbara Ehrenreich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-ehrenreich/) > [The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-ehrenreich/the-nation-was-not-founded-by-habitual-groupthinkers-but-it-stands-a/) [Barbara Ehrenreich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-ehrenreich/) > [ “You might discover that, nationwide, America's food banks are experiencing 'a torrent of need which \[they\] cannot meet' and that, according to a survey… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-ehrenreich/you-might-discover-that-nationwide-america-s-food-banks-are/) [Barbara Ehrenreich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-ehrenreich/) > [My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-ehrenreich/my-turn-is-the-distilled-bathwater-of-mrs-reagan-s-life-it-is-for-the/) [Barbara Ehrenreich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-ehrenreich/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/barbara-ehrenreich/#itemlist", "name": "14 Ifs Quotes By Barbara Ehrenreich", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "But our culture is in truly bad shape if we have come to define respecting something as the failure to set it on fire.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Barbara Ehrenreich" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-ehrenreich/but-our-culture-is-in-truly-bad-shape-if-we-have-come-to-define/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": 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I would really like to see some separation of church and stadium, if we could work on that.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Barbara Ehrenreich" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-ehrenreich/our-great-common-challenge-is-to-free-people-from-religion-get-it-out/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a7/barbara-ehrenreich-1204_add_our-great-common-challenge-is-to-free-pe_2316170.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a7/barbara-ehrenreich-1204_add_our-great-common-challenge-is-to-free-pe_2316170.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a7/barbara-ehrenreich-1204_add_our-great-common-challenge-is-to-free-pe_2316170.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“our great common challenge ... is to free people from religion, get it out of our laws, our schools, our…” — Barbara Ehrenreich", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great scientific entrepreneurs free to smash atoms, accelerate particles, or, if they are so moved, build pyramids -- without any social relevance or human responsibility at all.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Barbara Ehrenreich" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-ehrenreich/thus-will-the-fondest-dream-of-phallic-science-be-realized-a-pristine/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5d/barbara-ehrenreich-1204_accelerate_thus-will-the-fondest-dream-of-phallic-s_460428.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5d/barbara-ehrenreich-1204_accelerate_thus-will-the-fondest-dream-of-phallic-s_460428.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5d/barbara-ehrenreich-1204_accelerate_thus-will-the-fondest-dream-of-phallic-s_460428.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by…” — Barbara Ehrenreich", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a whole bunch of cinders (one of which is, fortunately, still hot enough and close enough to be good for tanning). 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