Community Quote by Rutger Bregman Download Open image ““people living in unequal societies spend more time worrying about how others see them.”” — Rutger Bregman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Community
“Society sucks. It should not matter what others think, if we are fine with it. Still we both have to concern ourselves with what… — Jayson James Copy Share Image
“People are egalitarian by nature, and unequal societies can never function well due to resentment and dissatisfaction. But” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“human societies always define themselves by their narrowest possible interests.That they are exclusive not inclusive.” — Joel Shepherd Copy Share Image
“Connection to a larger humanity gives people more freedom to express their individuality without fear of jeopardizing belonging.” — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“In people’s lives and worldviews, concerns about economics, race, gender, class, and culture all blend together.” — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
“If society asks more of us, and arranges its social institutions appropriately, it will get more.” — Barry Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Our stereotyping societies force us to feel more alone. They stamp masks on us and isolate out real selves. We all live in two… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“some people always get more than their share of equality than others” — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“But equal treatment in an unequal society could still foster inequality.” — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“If all the developed countries would let in just 3% more immigrants, the world’s poor would have $305 billion more to spend, say scientists… — Rutger Bregman 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 hand. No… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
I think one of the most important facts of basic income would be that it's not only a redistribution of income, but also of… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
The great thing about money is that people can use it to buy things they need instead of things self-appointed experts think they need. — Rutger Bregman 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 our times.… — Rutger Bregman 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 for free.… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“To calculate the GDP, numerous data points have to be linked together and hundreds of wholly subjective choices made regarding what to count and… — Rutger Bregman 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 women, German… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“Precisely when we should be shouldering the historic task of investing this rich, safe, and healthy existence with meaning, we’ve buried utopia instead. There’s… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Believing in the good of humanity is a revolutionary act - it means that we don't need all those managers and CEO's, kings and… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Poor people aren't making dumb decisions because they are dumb, but because they're living in a context in which anyone would make dumb decisions. — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“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 just as… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image