Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail. — 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… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
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… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
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… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
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
