Top 10 Franklin Foer Quotes
#1. I believe that the rising of the proletariat, if it ever comes in this country, will end in a colossal victory for capitalism - that capitalism, as at present and in the past, will play off one mob against another, and pick the pockets of both.
Franklin Foer
#2. Most of the time the concept of globalization ends up sounding unnecessarily abstruse - even the name itself sounds clunky and highfalutin.
Franklin Foer
#3. Politically I am absolutely honest, which is to say, as honest as possible; which is to say, honest more or less; which is to say, far more honest than the general.
Franklin Foer
#4. I think that globalization is partly responsible for the spread of the hostile, radical forms of Islam.
Franklin Foer
#5. Globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums.
Franklin Foer
#6. Indeed, this is an important characteristic of the globalization debate: the tendency toward glorifying all things indigenous even when they deserve to be left in the past.
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#7. Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions.
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#8. It's the most familial-based societies where the sense of obligation is strongest, that breed the worst nepotism and cronyism.
Franklin Foer
#9. I don't think Islam has really been understood as a product of globalization. It might be one of these instances where globalism and tribalism ultimately go hand in hand.
Franklin Foer
#10. People are drawn to radical Islam because they feel their traditional ways of life threatened by the influx of KFC and Hollywood movies and the like.
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