All George Packer Quotes
- We will have a more just society as soon as we want one. Funny
- It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true. Broken
- It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore. Amazon
- Much of the international unease with the Sochi Games has focused on the threat of terrorism, Putin's domestic repressiveness, and the Russian campaign of anti-gay… Anti
- With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy. Contours
- Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and… Appeals
- Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P. Morgan and Company,… Amazon
- Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems. Age
- The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy. Age
- Amazon's identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating. Amazon
- Twitter is crack for media addicts, Addict
- At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste… Battle
- Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances… Adapted
- Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of the Cold War.… Accepted
- Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even popular… Books
- Before Google, and long before Facebook, Bezos had realized that the greatest value of an online company lay in the consumer data it collected. Bezos
- To many book professionals, Amazon is a ruthless predator. The company claims to want a more literate world - and it came along when the… Along
- I actually think that self-interest is overrated as an all-purpose guide to political motive. It leaves out something at least as powerful and immovable -… Actually Think
- Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have broken down under… Abnormal
- What the Web has never figured out is how to pay for reporting, which, with the collapse of print newspapers, is in desperately short supply,… Collapse
- Everything seems set up for success in digital journalism - money, eyeballs, software, brands. Brands
- Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them. Character
- The Senate was an odd compromise between the founders and the early leaders of the republic who wanted a single house which was based on… Aristocratic
- Too many talented and supremely calculating politicians, including Nixon and Clinton, have destroyed their careers, or come close, by acting in ways that were obviously… Acting