When the press writes scare stories about the global labor supply draining jobs from rich to poor places, the story is usually presented as a "race t…

- Richard Sennett

Issac Stern rule: the better your technique, the more impossible your standards.

- Richard Sennett

Tocqueville saw the brute repression of deviants as a necessity if men were to keep convincing themselves of their collective dignity through their c…

- Richard Sennett

Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake.

- Richard Sennett

The pleasures of relaxed chat, of casual conversation, encourage the ethnographer in everyone

- Richard Sennett

Like the Roman town grid, the New York plan was laid down on largely empty land, a city designed in advance of being inhabited; if the Romans consult…

- Richard Sennett

Authority is itself inherently an act of imagination.

- Richard Sennett

Our modern economy privileges pure profit, momentary transactions and rapid fluidity. Part of craft’s anchoring role is that it helps to objectify ex…

- Richard Sennett

We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability.

- Richard Sennett