“I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.”— Georg C. Lichtenberg, goodreads.com
“We talk a lot about our right to freedom of expression, but we need to talk more about our responsibility to freedom of expression. We all want to be heard, but let's acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and speaking up for attention.”— Monica Lewinsky, ted.com
“The echo of embarrassment used to extend only as far as your family, village, school or community, but now it's the online community too. Millions of people, often anonymously, can stab you with their words, and that's a lot of pain.”— Monica Lewinsky, ted.com
“Cruelty to others is nothing new, but online, technologically enhanced shaming is amplified, uncontained, and permanently accessible.”— Monica Lewinsky, ted.com
“I was branded as a tramp, tart, slut, whore, bimbo, and, of course, ‘that woman’. I was seen by many but actually known by few. And I get it, it was easy to forget that ‘that woman’ was dimensional, had a soul, and was once unbroken.”— Monica Lewinsky, ted.com
“Overnight I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one worldwide. I was patient zero of losing a personal reputation on a global scale almost instantaneously.”— Monica Lewinsky, ted.com
“Ninety percent of the technology and platforms that people now consume most of their media did not exist when I started on television. That was a really good thing because I didn’t get any feedback from anybody. My fans couldn’t get a hold of me. I didn’t know if I was doing anything right or wrong…”— Alton Brown, atlantamagazine.com
“Many people believe that memory works like a recording device. You just record the information, then you call it up and play it back when you want to answer questions or identify images. But decades of work in psychology has shown that this just isn’t true. Our memories are constructive. They’re rec…”— Elizabeth Loftus, ted.com
“What I’ve come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”— Chris Abani, ted.com
“The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.”— Karl Marx , amazon.com
“We're all just human beings. We should be guided by that most basic fact, and approach one another with generosity and compassion.”— Megan Phelps-Roper, ted.com
“When we engage people across ideological divides, asking questions helps us map the disconnect between our differing points of view.”— Megan Phelps-Roper, ted.com
“Assuming ill motives almost instantly cuts us off from truly understanding why someone does and believes as they do.”— Megan Phelps-Roper, ted.com
“Certainly not every Trump voter is a white supremacist, just as not every white person in the Jim Crow South was a white supremacist. But every Trump voter felt it acceptable to hand the fate of the country over to one.”— Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.com
“Asserting that Trump’s rise was primarily powered by cultural resentment and economic reversal has become de rigueur among white pundits and thought leaders. But evidence for this is, at best, mixed.”— Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.com
“White Americans elected an orcish reality-TV star who insists on taking his intelligence briefings in picture-book form.”— Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.com
“For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.”— Anne Fadiman, theatlantic.com
“I don’t agree on spending time with someone who is more attached to his cell phone than he is to me.”— Mohamed Ghazi, amazon.com