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> [Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-barber/where-once-the-student-was-taught-that-the-unexamined-life-was-not/)

[Benjamin Barber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-barber/)

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## More by Benjamin Barber

> [9/11 was a signal that we were living in a new world - a world of interdependence, a world in which people could attack…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-barber/9-11-was-a-signal-that-we-were-living-in-a-new-world-a-world-of/)

[Benjamin Barber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-barber/)

> [Civility is a work of the imagination, for it is through the imagination that we render others sufficiently like ourselves for them to become…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-barber/civility-is-a-work-of-the-imagination-for-it-is-through-the/)

[Benjamin Barber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-barber/)

> [By the laws of the land, people who come looking for jobs in America are illegal. But by the laws of economics, they are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-barber/by-the-laws-of-the-land-people-who-come-looking-for-jobs-in-america/)

[Benjamin Barber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-barber/)

> [McWorld is a product of popular culture driven by expansionist commerce. Its template is American, its form style. Its goods are as much images…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-barber/mcworld-is-a-product-of-popular-culture-driven-by-expansionist/)

[Benjamin Barber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-barber/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-barber/the-real-lesson-of-9-11-that-i-think-we-have-still-to-learn-is-that/)

[Benjamin Barber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-barber/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-barber/independence-used-to-be-the-ticket-for-liberty-but-today-security-and/)

[Benjamin Barber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-barber/)

> [Consumer sales depend on the habits and behaviors of consumers, and those who manipulate consumer markets cannot but address behavior and attitude. That is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-barber/consumer-sales-depend-on-the-habits-and-behaviors-of-consumers-and/)

[Benjamin Barber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-barber/)

> [Having created the conditions that make markets possible, democracy must do all the things that markets undo or cannot do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-barber/having-created-the-conditions-that-make-markets-possible-democracy/)

[Benjamin Barber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-barber/)

> [The question to ask is not whether you are a success or a failure, but whether you are a learner or a nonlearner.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-barber/the-question-to-ask-is-not-whether-you-are-a-success-or-a-failure-but/)

[Benjamin Barber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-barber/)

> [I divide the world into learners and non-learners.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-barber/i-divide-the-world-into-learners-and-non-learners/)

[Benjamin Barber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-barber/)

> [When it comes to acid rain or oil spills or depleted fisheries or tainted groundwater or fluorocarbon propellants or radiation leaks or sexually transmitted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-barber/when-it-comes-to-acid-rain-or-oil-spills-or-depleted-fisheries-or/)

[Benjamin Barber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-barber/)

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-barber/i-don-t-divide-the-world-into-the-weak-and-the-strong-or-the/)

[Benjamin Barber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-barber/)

> [I divide the word into learners and nonlearners. There are people who learn, who are open to what happens around them, who listen, who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-barber/i-divide-the-word-into-learners-and-nonlearners-there-are-people-who/)

[Benjamin Barber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-barber/)

> [Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-barber/where-once-the-student-was-taught-that-the-unexamined-life-was-not/)

[Benjamin Barber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-barber/)

> [“I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures, those who make it or those who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-barber/i-don-t-divide-the-world-into-the-weak-and-the-strong-or-the-2/)

[Benjamin Barber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-barber/)

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