108 Quotes by Thomas L. Friedman

Most lost jobs are outsourced to the past.

The truth was, each side understood they were in a war for communal survival. One side had knives and pistols; the other had secret agents and courts. While each constantly cried out to the world how evil the other was, when they looked one another in the eye . . . they said something different: I will do whatever I have to to survive.

Criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitic, and saying so is vile. But singling out Israel for opprobrium and international sanction out of all proportion to any other party in the Middle East is anti-Semitic, and not saying so is dishonest.

Today more than ever, the traditional boundaries between politics, culture, technology, finance, national security and ecology are disappearing. You often cannot explain one without referring to the others, and you cannot explain the whole without reference to them all.

Respect Science. Respect Nature. Respect Each Other.

A golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes – golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero.

Capitalism makes people unequally rich. Communism makes people equally poor.

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.