96 Quotes by Franklin Foer

If we believe we’re being watched, we’re far less likely to let our minds roam toward opinions that require courage or might take us beyond the bounds of acceptable opinion. We begin to bend our opinions to please our observer.

Globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody’s lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums.

Just as Nabisco and Kraft wanted to change how we eat and what we eat, Amazon, Facebook, and Google aspire to alter how we read and what we read.

The contemplative life remains freely available to us through our choices – what we read and buy, how we commit to leisure and self-improvement, the passing over of empty temptation, our preservation of the quiet spaces, an intentional striving to become the masters of our mastery.

Most of the time the concept of globalization ends up sounding unnecessarily abstruse – even the name itself sounds clunky and highfalutin.

Intellectuals, freelance writers, investigative journalists, and midlist novelists are the analog to the family farmers, who have always struggled but simply can’t compete in this transformed economy.

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.

I think that globalization is partly responsible for the spread of the hostile, radical forms of Islam.

There are only so many hours in the day for amateur pursuits – and very few writers are as gifted as Wallace Stevens or T. S. Eliot or Sylvia Plath, able to generate something lasting from stolen moments.