Saul Klein

“Today,” she said, too many people in positions of power behave as though they have more in common with international elites than with the people down the road, the people they employ, the people they pass on the street. But if you believe you are a citizen of the world, you are a citizen of nowhere. You don’t understand what citizenship means.”
― Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

“Robida in 1883 published cartoon pictures of flat television screens, test-tube babies, bomber airplanes, and chemical warfare. Robida understood, as Verne and Wells did not, that the twentieth would be the century of world wars.”
― Freeman Dyson, The Sun, the Genome and the Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions

“humility of the social sciences—the realization that development has to do with people, with human and social complexity, with cultural and traditional realities, and their willingness to struggle with the messy and multifaceted aspects of a problem—have no cachet in this metrics-driven, efficiency-seeking, technology-focused approach to social change.”
― Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

“Human desires and inlitu- tions decide how we use them.”
― Freeman Dyson, The Sun, the Genome and the Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions