“nationalism is a cruel epidemic of evil that is sweeping over the human world of the present age,”
― Nationalism: Rabindranath Tagore Reflects on Patriotism
― Nationalism: Rabindranath Tagore Reflects on Patriotism
“First, if you want reliable information, pay good money for it. If you get your news for free, you might well be the product.”
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
“Democracy is based on Abraham Lincoln’s principle that ‘you can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time’.”
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
“Today, the richest 1 percent own half the world’s wealth. Even more alarmingly, the richest one hundred people together own more than the poorest four billion.”
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
“So the best advice I can give a fifteen-year-old stuck in an outdated school somewhere in Mexico, India, or Alabama is: don’t rely on the adults too much. Most of them mean well, but they just don’t understand the world. In the past, it was a relatively safe bet to follow the adults, because they knew the world quite well, and the world changed slowly. But the twenty-first century is going to be different. Because of the increasing pace of change, you can never be certain whether what the adults are telling you is timeless wisdom or outdated bias.”
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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