Benjamin Barber Quotes

#1. Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.

W. Averell Harriman

#2. The rain beat softly upon the shingles, inviting them to drowsiness and sleep. But they dared not yield. The rain was over; and the sun was turning the glistening world into a palace of gems.

Kate Chopin

#3. This administration is doing everything we can to end the stalemate in an efficient way. We're making the right decisions to bring the solution to an end.

George W. Bush

#4. If I was your boyfriend <3

Justin Bieber

#5. With a sigh, Lilly sank down on a small Louis XV stool and looked up through the window at the sky. Snow had been falling incessantly for days. Her gaze fell on the reflection of her face in the shiny polished side of a little cupboard that belonged to her growing army of unsold items.

Corina Bomann

#6. Consumer sales depend on the habits and behaviors of consumers, and those who manipulate consumer markets cannot but address behavior and attitude. That is presumably the object of the multibillion-dollar global advertising industry. Tea drinkers are improbable prospects for Coke sales.

Benjamin Barber

#7. Injuries too well remembered cannot heal.

Benjamin Barber

#8. I divide the world into learners and non-learners.

Benjamin Barber

#9. More of your conversation would infect my brain.

William Shakespeare

#10. Father, forgive me," he thought, staring into the sky where the light of the sun stared back at him behind the clouds. "Truth does not care if it comforts her. But I do.

R. Lee Smith

#11. Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.

Benjamin Barber

#12. Global inequality means that while the wealthy have too few needs, the needy have too little wealth. Capitalism is stymied, courting long-term disaster.

Benjamin Barber

#13. The real lesson of 9/11 that I think we have still to learn is that this is a world of interdependence, in which all of the challenges of environment and climate change, of jobs, of disease, of war and terrorism, are cross-border problems that cannot be met one nation at a time.

Benjamin Barber

#14. How is it that when we see politics permeate every life sector we call it totalitarianism and when we see religion everywhere we call it theocracy, but when commerce dominates everything we call it liberty?

Benjamin Barber

#15. Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Benjamin Franklin

#16. Independence used to be the ticket for liberty. But today, security and freedom, whether it's in the Arab Spring, whether it's in Iraq or whether it's right here in the United States, means working cooperatively and interdependently with others.

Benjamin Barber

#17. Courts and camps are the only places to learn the world in.

Doug Stanhope

#18. Hollywood is McWorld's storyteller, and it inculcates secularism, passivity, consumerism, vicariousness, impulse buying, and an accelerated pace of life, not as a result of its overt themes and explicit story lines but by virtue of what Hollywood is and how its products are consumed.

Benjamin R. Barber

#19. Civility is a work of the imagination, for it is through the imagination that we render others sufficiently like ourselves for them to become subjects of tolerance and respect, if not always affection.

Benjamin Barber

#20. I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and failures ... I divide the world into the learners and non-learners.

Benjamin Barber

#21. I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

A. N. Wilson

#22. Words are but the signs of ideas.

Samuel Johnson

#23. I think my independence was a big help to getting Judges Roberts and Alito confirmed, and I think that's recognized.

Arlen Specter

#24. Cecil: "A cup of love is greater than a pitcher full of ambition.

William Carmichael

#25. I firmly believe that the two most important times in a person's life are when they are born and when they find out why they were born.

Farrah Gray

#26. By the laws of the land, people who come looking for jobs in America are illegal. But by the laws of economics, they are following the logic and laws of economics when they leave Guatemala and go to Mexico, leave Mexico and come to the U.S., leave Africa and go to Spain and Europe looking for jobs.

Benjamin Barber

#27. Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.

Benjamin Barber

#28. The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.

William Lyon Phelps

#29. Having created the conditions that make markets possible, democracy must do all the things that markets undo or cannot do.

Benjamin Barber