# Herbert I. Schiller

- Quotes: 19
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-i-schiller

## Books

- [Living in the Number One Country](https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-i-schiller/living-in-the-number-one-country.md) — 19 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> The actions and inactions of hundreds of millions of people and nearly 200 states, will affect what kind of world emerges in the time ahead.

p. 67 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-i-schiller/living-in-the-number-one-country/the-actions-and.md)

> How well a posse policy will fare in a world with 3 billion people below the poverty line and nuclear warheads scattered around a dozen or more regions like melons in a field, is not easy to imagine.

p. 70 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-i-schiller/living-in-the-number-one-country/how-well-a-posse.md)

> The "cumulative effects" of unbridled commercialism, however difficult to assess, constitute one key to the impact of growing up in the core of the world's marketing system. Minimally, it suggests unpreparedness for, and lack of interest in, the world that exists outside the shopping mall.

p. 171 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-i-schiller/living-in-the-number-one-country/the-cumulative-effects.md)

> Popular dissatisfaction seems to occur only when the shopping or the commercials are interrupted. In such an atmosphere, is there any reason to imagine that saturation shopping could be a source of instability to the U.S. world position?

p. 198 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-i-schiller/living-in-the-number-one-country/popular-dissatisfaction-seems.md)

> One growing threat to the stability of the U.S. economy, and therefore to its capability to continue to direct the global order, paradoxically emerges from its success in establishing capitalism around the world.

p. 183 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-i-schiller/living-in-the-number-one-country/one-growing-threat.md)

> In the postindustrial age, labor is seen as essentially uninvolved in the social process because there is no need for assertive labor.

p. 56 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-i-schiller/living-in-the-number-one-country/in-the-postindustrial.md)

> In the 1990's, a time of corporate capital's global ascendancy, the mildest restraints on its prerogatives have been peremptorily rejected. Automatically, under this designation, measures to protect national cultural industries, for example, have been ruled unacceptable infringements of "free trade".

p. 80 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-i-schiller/living-in-the-number-one-country/in-the-1990s.md)

> Ultimately, each transnational firm strives for its own advantage, and is supported in that effort by the state power wherein it resides, or at least where its main shareholders are domiciled.

p. 78 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-i-schiller/living-in-the-number-one-country/ultimately-each-transnational.md)

> The flow of information it promotes is free in one respect only. The flow is expected to be freely admitted to all the spaces that its providers desire to transmit to. Otherwise there is nothing free about the information. Quite the contrary. Information and message flows are already, and will continue to be, priced to exact the highest revenues extractable.

p. 85 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-i-schiller/living-in-the-number-one-country/the-flow-of-information.md)

> With deregulation, one sector of the economy after another is "liberated" to capital's unmonitored authority. The very notion that there is a public interest is contested.

p. 92 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-i-schiller/living-in-the-number-one-country/with-deregulation-one.md)

> Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere.

p. 56 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-i-schiller/living-in-the-number-one-country/triumphant-capitalism-has.md)

> Though some still see the Internet, for example, as a democratic structure for international individual expression, it is more realistic to recognize it as only the latest technological vehicle to be turned, sooner or later, to corporate advantage - for advertising, marketing and general corporate aggrandizement.

p. 94 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-i-schiller/living-in-the-number-one-country/though-some-still.md)