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> [The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don't create real economic opportunities for them, the practical result is to encourage disorganized economic activities that results in the further…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-unger/the-amazon-is-not-just-a-set-of-trees-it-is-a-set-of-25-million/)

[Roberto Unger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-unger/)

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## More by Roberto Unger

> [The essential thing, the ultimate goal of politics and thought, is a bigger life for the individual. A bigger life – that remains the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-unger/the-essential-thing-the-ultimate-goal-of-politics-and-thought-is-a/)

[Roberto Unger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-unger/)

> [Social solidarity must rest (instead) on the sole secure basis it can have: direct responsibility of people for one another. Such responsibility can be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-unger/social-solidarity-must-rest-instead-on-the-sole-secure-basis-it-can/)

[Roberto Unger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-unger/)

> [The supreme good of life is vitality. And vitality is always seeping away.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-unger/the-supreme-good-of-life-is-vitality-and-vitality-is-always-seeping/)

[Roberto Unger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-unger/)

> [The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-unger/the-scientist-should-treasure-the-riddles-he-can-t-solve-not-explain/)

[Roberto Unger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-unger/)

> [In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-unger/in-my-view-a-political-vision-is-not-a-grab-bag-of-discrete-problems/)

[Roberto Unger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-unger/)

> [The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don't create real economic opportunities…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-unger/the-amazon-is-not-just-a-set-of-trees-it-is-a-set-of-25-million/)

[Roberto Unger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-unger/)

> [Brazil has no future as a China with fewer people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-unger/brazil-has-no-future-as-a-china-with-fewer-people/)

[Roberto Unger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-unger/)

> [One of the striking features of the form of globalisation that has now been established is that it is based on the premise that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-unger/one-of-the-striking-features-of-the-form-of-globalisation-that-has/)

[Roberto Unger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-unger/)

> [In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-unger/in-a-world-of-democracies-the-most-deserving-basis-of-national/)

[Roberto Unger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-unger/)

> [In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-unger/in-a-world-of-democracies-in-a-world-where-the-great-projects-that/)

[Roberto Unger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-unger/)

> [When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one we see,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-unger/when-we-imagine-our-universe-to-be-just-one-out-of-a-multitude-of/)

[Roberto Unger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-unger/)

> [I regard myself as a man without charm in a country of charmers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-unger/i-regard-myself-as-a-man-without-charm-in-a-country-of-charmers/)

[Roberto Unger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-unger/)

> [At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-unger/at-every-level-the-greatest-obstacle-to-transforming-the-world-is/)

[Roberto Unger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-unger/)

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