Public Stage Quotes by James Fallows

More Quotes by James Fallows

James Fallows has 34 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• A rigid America is also weak and vulnerable, because it sacrifices its unique strength: the energy of people who think they can…
• The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10…
• Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.
• According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining capacity in…
• It is not widely known that, ever since the end of the Korean War, the United States has spent essentially the same…
• Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.
• Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.
• Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate.
• Successful societies-those which progress economically and politically and can control the terms on which they deal with the outside world-succeed because they…
• Make the important interesting.
• Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.
• Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.

See all 34 quotes by James Fallows »