People are always yearning for a bigger story to be part of, it's not enough to live our own private lives. — Rutger Bregman Enough Copy Share Image
It's one of the tragedies of the modern university that it offers little space to generalists. — Rutger Bregman Education Copy Share Image
My life philosophy is that you need a boring private life if you want to have a more exciting public life. — Rutger Bregman Boring Copy Share Image
“Inequality? The countries with the biggest disparities in wealth are precisely those with the longest workweeks.” — Rutger Bregman Inequality Copy Share Image
One of the basic lessons of history is that things can be different. — Rutger Bregman Be different Copy Share Image
History will tell you that borders are not inevitable, they hardly existed at the end of the 19th century. — Rutger Bregman 19th century Copy Share Image
Maybe utopianism is my form of religion in a world without God. — Rutger Bregman Form Copy Share Image
It matters so much that from a very early age we encounter different kinds of different people, because that's what real life… — Rutger Bregman Age Copy Share Image
This is what a crisis does: It makes you question the status quo. That doesn't mean that after a crisis we move… — Rutger Bregman Change Copy Share Image
We'll all remember 2020 as an historic year. And for decades, people will be able to say, remember 2020. Remember when things… — Rutger Bregman Generation Copy Share Image
My aspiration was to write a book that you could still read in 10 years. That's hard. Then you start doubting every… — Rutger Bregman Book Copy Share Image
What the underdog socialist has forgotten is that the story of the left ought to be a narrative of hope and progress. — Rutger Bregman Hope Copy Share Image
“Today, the richest 8% earn half of all the world’s income,24 and the richest 1% own more than half of all wealth.25… — Rutger Bregman Money Copy Share Image
Around the year 2000, countries such as France, the Netherlands and the US were already five times as wealthy as in 1930.… — Rutger Bregman Boredom Copy Share Image
Actually, it is precisely in overworked countries like Japan, England and the US that people watch an absurd amount of television. Up… — Rutger Bregman Age life Copy Share Image
“President Nixon presented a bill providing for a modest basic income, calling it “the most significant piece of social legislation in our… — Rutger Bregman Baby boom Copy Share Image
Most of Mark Zuckerberg's income is just rent collected off the millions of picture and video posts that we give away daily… — Rutger Bregman Daily Copy Share Image
“The correlation between ethnic background and crime, it turns out, is precisely zero. None, nothing, nada. Youth crime, the report stated, has… — Rutger Bregman Crime Copy Share Image
Since 1963, the University of Delaware's Disaster Research Center has conducted nearly 700 field studies on floods and earthquakes, and on-site research… — Rutger Bregman Calm Copy Share Image
“Is it any wonder that the cultural archetype of my generation is the Nerd, whose apps and gadgets symbolize the hope of… — Rutger Bregman Economic growth Copy Share Image
Since long workdays lead to more errors, shorter workdays could reduce accidents. Overtime is deadly. Tired surgeons have been found to be… — Rutger Bregman Accidents Copy Share Image
I've been thinking that school, or certainly the traditional English public school model, is like a prison, in that you can't get… — Rutger Bregman Bullying Copy Share Image
If I say most people are pretty decent that may sound nice and warm but actually it's really radical and subversive and… — Rutger Bregman Anarchists Copy Share Image
“Whether we’re searching for new dreams or rediscovering old ones, we can’t move forward without looking to the past. It’s the only… — Rutger Bregman Dreams Copy Share Image
“Besides being blind to lots of good things, the GDP also benefits from all manner of human suffering. Gridlock, drug abuse, adultery?… — Rutger Bregman Black friday Copy Share Image
“Recently, the International Monetary Fund published a report which revealed that too much inequality even inhibits economic growth.22 Perhaps the most fascinating… — Rutger Bregman Economic growth Copy Share Image
“The inventor of GDP cautioned against including in its calculation expenditure for the military, advertising, and the financial sector,33 but his advice… — Rutger Bregman Deaf ears Copy Share Image
“Countless studies have shown that people who work less are more satisfied with their lives.37 In a recent poll conducted among working… — Rutger Bregman Daily activities Copy Share Image
“It empowers people,” one of the social workers said about the personalized budget. “It gives choices. I think it can make a… — Rutger Bregman Spend money Copy Share Image
“Anybody who forays outside the “Overton window” faces a rocky road. He or she will quickly be branded as “unrealistic” or “unreasonable”… — Rutger Bregman Different opinions Copy Share Image
“It was Joseph Overton, an American lawyer, who first explained the mechanisms of uppercase Politics in the 1990s. He began with a… — Rutger Bregman Good ideas Copy Share Image
“The idea that the GDP still serves as an accurate gauge of social welfare is one of the most widespread myths of… — Rutger Bregman Hard to believe Copy Share Image
“When Lehman Brothers collapsed on September 15, 2008, and inaugurated the biggest crisis since the 1930s, there were no real alternatives to… — Rutger Bregman Every day Copy Share Image
“The great milestones of civilization always have the whiff of utopia about them at first. According to renowned sociologist Albert Hirschman, utopias… — Rutger Bregman Long ago Copy Share Image
“This is nothing less than a whole new approach to economics. The randomistas don’t think in terms of models. They don’t believe… — Rutger Bregman Difficult time Copy Share Image
“Yet just eighty years ago it still seemed an impossible mission when U.S. President Herbert Hoover was tasked with beating back the… — Rutger Bregman Business Copy Share Image
“If there’s one place, then, where we can intervene in a way that will pay dividends for society down the road, it’s… — Rutger Bregman Developing countries Copy Share Image
“It takes talent, ambition, and brains. And the banking world is brimming with clever minds. “The genius of the great speculative investors… — Rutger Bregman Investing Copy Share Image
“Whereas public sector services often bring a plethora of hidden benefits, the private sector is riddled with hidden costs. “We can afford… — Rutger Bregman Economics Copy Share Image
