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

- Benjamin Barber

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 th…

- Benjamin Barber

Consumer sales depend on the habits and behaviors of consumers, and those who manipulate consumer markets cannot but address behavior and attitude. T…

- Benjamin Barber

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…

- Benjamin Barber

McWorld is a product of popular culture driven by expansionist commerce. Its template is American, its form style. Its goods are as much images as ma…

- Benjamin Barber

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'…

- Benjamin Barber

I divide the world into learners and non-learners.

- Benjamin Barber

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 examini…

- Benjamin Barber

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…

- Benjamin Barber