It was a very big principle in my upbringing that you should respect everybody's work. The street sweeper. Everybody. You should never… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Every time a bank swoops down to snatch up a home, it should be met with a crowd of jeering, obstructive neighbors.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
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… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
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… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Wars produce warlike societies, which in turn make the world more dangerous for other societies, which are thus recruited into being war-prone themselves. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Some people make stuff; other people have to buy it. And when we gave up making stuff, starting in the 1980s, we were left… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Robert Jackall’s book [ Moral Mazes ] impressed on me that corporate dress serves a far more important function than mere body covering. “Proper… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
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. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. ... the poor and the middle class were shaken down, and… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
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… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in the Old… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
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