Benjamin Barber Quotes

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.

Toxins don’t stop for customs inspections and microbes don’t carry passports. North America became a water and free-trade zone long before NAFTA loosened up the market in goods.

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

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.

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.

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