Benjamin Barber Quotes

• I divide the word into learners and nonlearners. There are people who learn, who are open to what happens around them, who listen, who hear the lessons. When they do something stupid, they don't do it again. And when they do something that works a little bit, they do it even better and harder the next time. The question to ask is not whether you are a success or a failure, but whether you are a learner or a nonlearner.

  Benjamin Barber

  Stupid, People, Littles

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• 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.

  Benjamin Barber

  Inspirational, Life, Strong

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

  Benjamin Barber

  Learners, Asks

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• McWorld es un producto de la cultura popular impulsado por el comercio expansionista. Su modelo es estadounidense, su forma, de estilo. Sus productos son tanto imágenes como materiales, una estética y una línea de productos. Se trata de la cultura como mercancía, la ropa como ideología. Sus símbolos son las motocicletas Harley-Davidson y los automóviles Cadillac, izadas desde las carreteras, donde una vez representaron un medio de transporte, hasta las marquesinas de cafés del mercado mundial como Harley-Davidson's y el Hard Rock, donde se convierten en iconos de estilo de vida.

  Benjamin Barber

  Icons, Rocks, Style

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

  Benjamin Barber

  Democracy, Libertarian, Conditions

  Benjamin Barber (2001). “Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy”, Ballantine Books

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• Independence used to be the ticket for liberty. But today, security and freedom, whether it's in the Arab Spring, whether it's in Iraq or whether it's right here in the United States, means working cooperatively and interdependently with others.

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  Spring, Mean, Security And Freedom

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• 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.

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  Life, Imagination, Tolerance

  Benjamin R. Barber (2000). “A Passion for Democracy: American Essays”, p.221, Princeton University Press

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• 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.

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  Taught, Students, Life Is

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• 9/11 was a signal that we were living in a new world - a world of interdependence, a world in which people could attack the United States not from the outside, but from the inside. It was a sign that the United States, the most powerful country in the world, could watch the cathedral of capitalism at the Trade Center and the heart of its defense at the Pentagon be struck internally, not really across borders, so that borders don't matter anymore.

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  País, Potente, Corazón

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Real, War

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• By the laws of the land, people who come looking for jobs in America are illegal. But by the laws of economics, they are following the logic and laws of economics when they leave Guatemala and go to Mexico, leave Mexico and come to the U.S., leave Africa and go to Spain and Europe looking for jobs.

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  Jobs, Europe, Law

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Injuries too well remembered cannot heal.

  Benjamin Barber

  Forgiveness, Injury, Heal

  Benjamin Barber (2001). “Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy”, Ballantine Books

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• I divide the world into learners and non-learners.

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  World, Learners, Divides

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• Consumer sales depend on the habits and behaviors of consumers, and those who manipulate consumer markets cannot but address behavior and attitude. That is presumably the object of the multibillion-dollar global advertising industry. Tea drinkers are improbable prospects for Coke sales.

  Benjamin Barber

  Attitude, Tea, Dollars

  Benjamin Barber (2001). “Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy”, Ballantine Books

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• Cuando se trata de lluvia ácida, vertidos de petróleo, agotamiento de recursos pesqueros, aguas subterráneas contaminadas, propulsores de fluorocarbono, fugas de radiación o enfermedades de transmisión sexual, las fronteras nacionales son irrelevantes. Las toxinas no se detienen en las inspecciones aduaneras y los microbios no llevan pasaporte. Norteamérica se convirtió en una zona acuática y de libre comercio mucho antes de que el TLCAN flexibilizara el mercado de bienes.

  Benjamin Barber

  Rain, Simple, Trade Zone

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

  Benjamin Barber

  School, Men, Jail

  Benjamin R. Barber (2000). “A Passion for Democracy: American Essays”, p.221, Princeton University Press

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