"Successful societies-those which progress economically and politically and……" — James Fallows
"Successful societies-those which progress economically and politically and can control the terms on which they deal with the outside world-succeed because they have found ways to match individual self-interest to the collective good."
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34 Quotes by James Fallows
James Fallows has 34 quotes on this site.
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A rigid America is also weak and vulnerable, because it sacrifices its unique strength: the energy of people who think…
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The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1…
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Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.
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According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining…
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It is not widely known that, ever since the end of the Korean War, the United States has spent essentially…
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Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.
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Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the…
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Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate.
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Make the important interesting.
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Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.
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Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko…
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Everyone moans about the collapsing U.S. infrastructure.
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More Collective Quotes
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
— Hannah Arendt
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I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.
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The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious.…
— Alan Ball
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Colorado's collective shale deposits contain somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 trillion barrels of oil. That's almost as much as…
— Bob Beauprez
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When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you…
— James Belushi
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Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by…
— Isaiah Berlin
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I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that…
— Buzz Aldrin
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We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal…
— David Cameron
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What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the…
— Tony Campolo
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Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.
— Deepak Chopra
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And for me anyway, consciousness is three components: a personal component which for lack of a better word we can…
— Deepak Chopra
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