As we segregate by income into different communities, schools in lower-income areas have fewer resources than ever.
Robert ReichRead
There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.
Interpretation
The focus on personal morality should shift to corporate ethics and governance.
Robert Reich highlights the disparity in how society prioritizes issues of personal morality over the ethical responsibilities of corporations and their leaders. By emphasizing the need for better accountability and transparency in boardrooms, he calls for a reassessment of where moral policing should truly be directed, suggesting that the common good is at stake when corporate conduct goes unchecked.
In practice
Using this quote in a discussion about corporate governance reform.
As we segregate by income into different communities, schools in lower-income areas have fewer resources than ever.
What are called 'public schools' in many of America's wealthy communities aren't really 'public' at all. In effect, they're private schools, whose tuition is hidden away in the purchase price of upscale homes there, and in the corresponding property taxes.
What someone is paid has little or no relationship to what their work is worth to society.
Tax laws favor capital over labor, giving capital gains a lower rate than ordinary income. The rich get humongous mortgage interest deductions while renters get no deduction at all.
The dirty little secret is that both houses of Congress are irrelevant. ... America's domestic policy is now being run by Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve, and America's foreign policy is now being run by the International Monetary Fund [IMF]. ...when the president decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from Congress.
You can't inspire people if you are going to be uninspiring.
The cyclical rebirth of caste in America is a recurring racial nightmare.
Cyprian was not issuing a new decree but was keeping to the most solid belief of the Church in order to correct some who thought that infants ought not be baptized before the eighth day after their birth. . . . He agreed with certain of his fellow bishops that a child is able to be duly baptized as soon as he is born.
The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it.
The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
The greatest myth about mass incarceration is that it has been driven by crime and crime rates. It's just not true.
I think I give the impression of being a romantic, and I think inside I'm quite severe. But some might say they had the opposite impression of me.
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