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Social Quotes by Evgeny Morozov
- Search without Google is like social networking without Facebook: unimaginable.
- Social media's greatest assets - anonymity, 'virality,' interconnectedness - are also its main weaknesses.
- The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes.
- To fully absorb the lessons of the Internet, urge the Internet-centrists, we need to reshape our political and social institutions in its image.
- As Barbara Streisand discovered, adopting a militaristic posture against a tech-savvy mob of civil libertarians is not going to be of much help: Many of…
- Contrary to the utopian rhetoric of social media enthusiasts, the Internet often makes the jump from deliberation to participation even more difficult, thwarting collective action…
- I have no problem with technological solutions to social problems. The key question for me is, 'Who gets to implement them?' and, 'What kinds of…
- I used to work for an NGO called Transitions Online, and I was their Director of New Media. I was a very idealistic fellow who…
- If we don't like rent control, we ought to oppose it on political and social grounds - and not just by arguing that, thanks to…
- In reality, quitting Facebook is much more problematic than the company's executives suggest, if only because users cannot extract all the intangible social capital they…
- It's true that virtually all new technologies do trigger what sociologists would call 'moral panics,' that there are a lot of people who are concerned…
- Technological defeatism - a belief that, since a given technology is here to stay, there's nothing we can do about it other than get on…
- We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social…
More Social Quotes
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
- Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting. — Margaret Atwood
- I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply… — Margaret Atwood
- If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if… — Margaret Atwood
- It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it.… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the… — Diane Ackerman
- The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his… — Ibrahim Babangida
- You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in… — Amitabh Bachchan
- I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service. — Michelle Bachelet
- Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have… — Michelle Bachelet