13 Quotes by Edward Luce

On the wall of Amshad's office there was a poster that made me laugh: DO NOT GIVE ME A BANGLE, GIVE ME A PEN. Well-meaning charities often train illiterate slum women to make cheap trinkets.

It is as if we were to start hacking a path through the Amazon forest. By the time we have proceeded a hundred yards, the undergrowth takes over again.

GDP numbers insist we are doing well, at a time when half the country is suffering from personal recessions.

Davos has become the emblem of a global elite that has lost its ability to listen.

To be clear: the West’s souring mood is about the psychology of dashed expectations rather than the decline in material comforts.

The meritocratic society has given way to a hereditary meritocracy.

The emergence of China is the most dramatic event in economic history. We are living in an age of convergence no less dramatic than the age of divergence brought about by European colonialism and the Industrial Revolution. The downward pressure on the incomes of the West’s middle classes in the coming years will be relentless.

Almost half of Americans would be unable to pay a $400 medical emergency bill without going into debt.67.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history. FRIEDRICH HEGEL.