By the laws of the land, people who come looking for jobs in America are illegal. But by the laws of economics, they are following the logic and laws of economics when they leave Guatemala and go to Mexico, leave… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
9/11 was a signal that we were living in a new world - a world of interdependence, a world in which people could attack the United States not from the outside, but from the inside. It was a sign that the United States, the most powerful country in the world, could watch the cathedral of capitalism at the Trade Center… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share
Civility is a work of the imagination, for it is through the imagination that we render others sufficiently like ourselves for them to become… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
By the laws of the land, people who come looking for jobs in America are illegal. But by the laws of economics, they are… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
McWorld is a product of popular culture driven by expansionist commerce. Its template is American, its form style. Its goods are as much images as matériel, an aesthetic as well as a product line. It is about culture as commodity, apparel as ideology. Its symbols are Harley-Davidson motorcycles and Cadillac motorcars hoisted from the roadways, where they once represented a… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share
The real lesson of 9/11 that I think we have still to learn is that this is a world of interdependence, in which all… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
Independence used to be the ticket for liberty. But today, security and freedom, whether it's in the Arab Spring, whether it's in Iraq or… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
Consumer sales depend on the habits and behaviors of consumers, and those who manipulate consumer markets cannot but address behavior and attitude. That is… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
Having created the conditions that make markets possible, democracy must do all the things that markets undo or cannot do. — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
The question to ask is not whether you are a success or a failure, but whether you are a learner or a nonlearner. — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
When it comes to acid rain or oil spills or depleted fisheries or tainted groundwater or fluorocarbon propellants or radiation leaks or sexually transmitted diseases, national frontiers are simple irrelevant. Toxins don't stop for customs inspections and microbes don't carry passports. North America became a water and free-trade zone long before NAFTA loosened up the market in goods. — Benjamin Barber Copy Share
I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and failures...I divide the world into the learners and non-learners. — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
