Quotes from Benjamin Barber

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.

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 the failures, those who make it or those who don't. I divide the world into learners and non-learners.

Global inequality means that while the wealthy have too few needs, the needy have too little wealth. Capitalism is stymied, courting long-term disaster.

How is it that when we see politics permeate every life sector we call it totalitarianism and when we see religion everywhere we call it theocracy, but when commerce dominates everything we call it liberty?

I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures. I divide the world into the learners and nonlearners.

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

Injuries too well remembered cannot heal.