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# Rutger Bregman

(1988)   Journalist

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Rutger Bregman is a journalist.

## Quick Facts About Rutger Bregman

Born April 26, 1988

Profession Journalist

## About Rutger Bregman

Rutger Christiaan Bregman is a Dutch journalist, writer, and historian.

##  Quotes by Rutger Bregman · Page 4

> [Contact is the best medicine against hate, racism and prejudice. It's something that we should be very wary of, the more segregation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/contact-is-the-best-medicine-against-hate-racism-and-prejudice-it-s/)

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> [It matters so much that from a very early age we encounter different kinds of different people, because that's what real life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/it-matters-so-much-that-from-a-very-early-age-we-encounter-different/)

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> [Even if you don't care about the environment whatsoever, solar panels are really cool, and are an investment because they save money…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/even-if-you-don-t-care-about-the-environment-whatsoever-solar-panels/)

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> [This is what a crisis does: It makes you question the status quo. That doesn't mean that after a crisis we move…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/this-is-what-a-crisis-does-it-makes-you-question-the-status-quo-that/)

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> [We'll all remember 2020 as an historic year. And for decades, people will be able to say, remember 2020. Remember when things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/we-ll-all-remember-2020-as-an-historic-year-and-for-decades-people/)

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> [My aspiration was to write a book that you could still read in 10 years. That's hard. Then you start doubting every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/my-aspiration-was-to-write-a-book-that-you-could-still-read-in-10/)

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> [What the underdog socialist has forgotten is that the story of the left ought to be a narrative of hope and progress.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/what-the-underdog-socialist-has-forgotten-is-that-the-story-of-the/)

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> [Around the year 2000, countries such as France, the Netherlands and the US were already five times as wealthy as in 1930.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/around-the-year-2000-countries-such-as-france-the-netherlands-and-the/)

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> [True innovation takes at least 10 to 15 years, whereas the longest that private venture capitalists are routinely willing to wait is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/true-innovation-takes-at-least-10-to-15-years-whereas-the-longest/)

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> [We know from scientific studies that infants as young as six months old can distinguish right from wrong and have a preference…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/we-know-from-scientific-studies-that-infants-as-young-as-six-months/)

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> [“Some scholarships are applied for by only 30% of those who qualify,” says Shafir, “despite the fact that study after study has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/some-scholarships-are-applied-for-by-only-30-of-those-who-qualify/)

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> [Most bayonets throughout history have probably not been used because soldiers just can't do it, something holds them back... the same goes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/most-bayonets-throughout-history-have-probably-not-been-used-because/)

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> [“President Nixon presented a bill providing for a modest basic income, calling it “the most significant piece of social legislation in our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/president-nixon-presented-a-bill-providing-for-a-modest-basic-income/)

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> [“The correlation between ethnic background and crime, it turns out, is precisely zero. None, nothing, nada. Youth crime, the report stated, has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/the-correlation-between-ethnic-background-and-crime-it-turns-out-is/)

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> [Most of Mark Zuckerberg's income is just rent collected off the millions of picture and video posts that we give away daily…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/most-of-mark-zuckerberg-s-income-is-just-rent-collected-off-the/)

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> [Since 1963, the University of Delaware's Disaster Research Center has conducted nearly 700 field studies on floods and earthquakes, and on-site research…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/since-1963-the-university-of-delaware-s-disaster-research-center-has/)

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> [“It empowers people,” one of the social workers said about the personalized budget. “It gives choices. I think it can make a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/it-empowers-people-one-of-the-social-workers-said-about-the/)

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> [“Countless studies have shown that people who work less are more satisfied with their lives.37 In a recent poll conducted among working…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/countless-studies-have-shown-that-people-who-work-less-are-more/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/today-the-richest-8-earn-half-of-all-the-world-s-income-24-and-the/)

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> [Actually, it is precisely in overworked countries like Japan, England and the US that people watch an absurd amount of television. Up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/actually-it-is-precisely-in-overworked-countries-like-japan-england/)

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> [News reports following a natural disaster are almost always dominated by stories of looting and violence, but in many cases such stories…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/news-reports-following-a-natural-disaster-are-almost-always-dominated/)

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> [The most daunting challenges of our times, from climate change to the ageing population, demand an entrepreneurial state unafraid to take a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/the-most-daunting-challenges-of-our-times-from-climate-change-to-the/)

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> [Private companies mostly manufacture medications that resemble what we've already got. They get it patented and, with a hefty dose of marketing,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/private-companies-mostly-manufacture-medications-that-resemble-what/)

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> [I am part of a broad social movement. Ten years ago, it would have unimaginable for some random Dutch historian to go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/i-am-part-of-a-broad-social-movement-ten-years-ago-it-would-have/)

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> [While it won't solve all the world's ills - and ideas such as a rent cap and more social housing are necessary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/while-it-won-t-solve-all-the-world-s-ills-and-ideas-such-as-a-rent/)

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> [As our farms and factories grew more efficient, they accounted for a shrinking share of our economy. And the more productive agriculture…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/as-our-farms-and-factories-grew-more-efficient-they-accounted-for-a/)

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> [Employees have been worrying about the rising tide of automation for 200 years now, and for 200 years employers have been assuring…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/employees-have-been-worrying-about-the-rising-tide-of-automation-for/)

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> [“If all the developed countries would let in just 3% more immigrants, the world’s poor would have $305 billion more to spend,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/if-all-the-developed-countries-would-let-in-just-3-more-immigrants/)

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> [“Opening borders to labor would boost wealth by much more–one thousand times more. In numbers: $65,000,000,000,000. In words: sixty-five trillion dollars.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/opening-borders-to-labor-would-boost-wealth-by-much-more-one-thousand/)

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> [Year after year, politicians have drafted huge piles of legislation on the assumption that most people are not good. And we know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/year-after-year-politicians-have-drafted-huge-piles-of-legislation-on/)

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> [Basic income would give people the most important freedom: the freedom of deciding for themselves what they want to do with their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/basic-income-would-give-people-the-most-important-freedom-the-freedom/)

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> [New ideas rarely come from the moderate parties in The Hague or Washington, in Brussels or Westminster. The world's political centres are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/new-ideas-rarely-come-from-the-moderate-parties-in-the-hague-or/)

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> [A worldwide shift to a shorter working week could cut the CO2 emitted this century by half. Countries with a shorter working…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/a-worldwide-shift-to-a-shorter-working-week-could-cut-the-co2-emitted/)

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> [Research suggests that someone who is constantly drawing on their creative abilities can, on average, be productive for no more than six…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/research-suggests-that-someone-who-is-constantly-drawing-on-their/)

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> [“Income inequality,” say two leading scientists who have studied twenty-four developed countries, “makes us all less happy with our lives, even if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/income-inequality-say-two-leading-scientists-who-have-studied-twenty/)

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> [I was born in 1988, one year before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and people of my generation were taught that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/i-was-born-in-1988-one-year-before-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall-and/)

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> [I think one of the most important facts of basic income would be that it's not only a redistribution of income, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/i-think-one-of-the-most-important-facts-of-basic-income-would-be-that/)

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> [“The bottom line is that wealth can be concentrated somewhere, but that doesn’t also mean that’s where it’s being created. This is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/the-bottom-line-is-that-wealth-can-be-concentrated-somewhere-but-that/)

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> [Bankers are the most obvious class of closet freeloaders, but they are certainly not alone. Many a lawyer and an accountant wields…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/bankers-are-the-most-obvious-class-of-closet-freeloaders-but-they-are/)

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> [I first read 'Lord of the Flies' as a teenager. I remember feeling disillusioned afterwards, but not for a second did I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/i-first-read-lord-of-the-flies-as-a-teenager-i-remember-feeling/)

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[Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/)

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## Rutger Bregman by topic

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