12 Quotes by Benjamin Barber

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

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?

I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures. I divide the world into the learners and nonlearners.

I divide the world into learners and non-learners.

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.

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.

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

The question to ask is not whether you are a success or a failure, but whether you are a learner or a nonlearner.

Injuries too well remembered cannot heal.