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Top 15 Franklin Foer Quotes (2025 Update)

Franklin Foer Quote: “Back in the seventies, Herbert Simon, the Nobel-winning economist, took these inchoate sentiments and explained them rigorously: “What information consumes is rather obvious. It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”

1. “Back in the seventies, Herbert Simon, the Nobel-winning economist, took these inchoate sentiments and explained them rigorously: “What information consumes is rather obvious. It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”

— Franklin Foer

Franklin Foer Quote: “If we believe we’re being watched, we’re far less likely to let our minds roam toward opinions that require courage or might take us beyond the bounds of acceptable opinion. We begin to bend our opinions to please our observer.”

2. “If we believe we’re being watched, we’re far less likely to let our minds roam toward opinions that require courage or might take us beyond the bounds of acceptable opinion. We begin to bend our opinions to please our observer.”

— Franklin Foer

Franklin Foer Quote: “Soccer isn’t the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community’s fabric, a repository of traditions.”

3. “Soccer isn’t the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community’s fabric, a repository of traditions.”

— Franklin Foer

Franklin Foer Quote: “Globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody’s lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums.”

4. “Globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody’s lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums.”

— Franklin Foer

Franklin Foer Quote: “I don’t think Islam has really been understood as a product of globalization. It might be one of these instances where globalism and tribalism ultimately go hand in hand.”

5. “I don’t think Islam has really been understood as a product of globalization. It might be one of these instances where globalism and tribalism ultimately go hand in hand.”

— Franklin Foer

Franklin Foer Quote: “Indeed, this is an important characteristic of the globalization debate: the tendency toward glorifying all things indigenous even when they deserve to be left in the past.”

6. “Indeed, this is an important characteristic of the globalization debate: the tendency toward glorifying all things indigenous even when they deserve to be left in the past.”

— Franklin Foer

Franklin Foer Quote: “People are drawn to radical Islam because they feel their traditional ways of life threatened by the influx of KFC and Hollywood movies and the like.”

7. “People are drawn to radical Islam because they feel their traditional ways of life threatened by the influx of KFC and Hollywood movies and the like.”

— Franklin Foer

Franklin Foer Quote: “There are only so many hours in the day for amateur pursuits – and very few writers are as gifted as Wallace Stevens or T. S. Eliot or Sylvia Plath, able to generate something lasting from stolen moments.”

8. “There are only so many hours in the day for amateur pursuits – and very few writers are as gifted as Wallace Stevens or T. S. Eliot or Sylvia Plath, able to generate something lasting from stolen moments.”

— Franklin Foer

Franklin Foer Quote: “Just as Nabisco and Kraft wanted to change how we eat and what we eat, Amazon, Facebook, and Google aspire to alter how we read and what we read.”

9. “Just as Nabisco and Kraft wanted to change how we eat and what we eat, Amazon, Facebook, and Google aspire to alter how we read and what we read.”

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Franklin Foer Quote: “The contemplative life remains freely available to us through our choices – what we read and buy, how we commit to leisure and self-improvement, the passing over of empty temptation, our preservation of the quiet spaces, an intentional striving to become the masters of our mastery.”

10. “The contemplative life remains freely available to us through our choices – what we read and buy, how we commit to leisure and self-improvement, the passing over of empty temptation, our preservation of the quiet spaces, an intentional striving to become the masters of our mastery.”

— Franklin Foer

Franklin Foer Quote: “But in the end, the hackers were misunderstood figures. They wanted nothing more than to belong, to subsume their brilliant selves in an even more incandescent whole, to lose themselves in the poetry of community.”

11. “But in the end, the hackers were misunderstood figures. They wanted nothing more than to belong, to subsume their brilliant selves in an even more incandescent whole, to lose themselves in the poetry of community.”

— Franklin Foer

Franklin Foer Quote: “Intellectuals, freelance writers, investigative journalists, and midlist novelists are the analog to the family farmers, who have always struggled but simply can’t compete in this transformed economy.”

12. “Intellectuals, freelance writers, investigative journalists, and midlist novelists are the analog to the family farmers, who have always struggled but simply can’t compete in this transformed economy.”

— Franklin Foer

Franklin Foer Quote: “Politically I am absolutely honest, which is to say, as honest as possible; which is to say, honest more or less; which is to say, far more honest than the general.”

13. “Politically I am absolutely honest, which is to say, as honest as possible; which is to say, honest more or less; which is to say, far more honest than the general.”

— Franklin Foer

Franklin Foer Quote: “I believe that the rising of the proletariat, if it ever comes in this country, will end in a colossal victory for capitalism – that capitalism, as at present and in the past, will play off one mob against another, and pick the pockets of both.”

14. “I believe that the rising of the proletariat, if it ever comes in this country, will end in a colossal victory for capitalism – that capitalism, as at present and in the past, will play off one mob against another, and pick the pockets of both.”

— Franklin Foer

Franklin Foer Quote: “I think that globalization is partly responsible for the spread of the hostile, radical forms of Islam.”

15. “I think that globalization is partly responsible for the spread of the hostile, radical forms of Islam.”

— Franklin Foer

Franklin Foer Quote: “Most of the time the concept of globalization ends up sounding unnecessarily abstruse – even the name itself sounds clunky and highfalutin.”

16. “Most of the time the concept of globalization ends up sounding unnecessarily abstruse – even the name itself sounds clunky and highfalutin.”

— Franklin Foer

Franklin Foer Quote: “It’s a basic, intuitive right, worthy of enshrinement: Citizens, not the corporations that stealthily track them, should own their own data.”

17. “It’s a basic, intuitive right, worthy of enshrinement: Citizens, not the corporations that stealthily track them, should own their own data.”

— Franklin Foer

18. “Even though Silicon Valley’s monopolies exist for the sake of profit, they view themselves as revolutionary agents, elevating the world to the state of oneness that Brand spent his life chasing.”

— Franklin Foer

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