"You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it."

-- Ethan Zuckerman

#People Quotes #Important Quotes #Movement Quotes

“I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from.”
“I wanted to direct when I was very young. I had no idea of cinema, of who's doing what. That was my first instinct: "Okay, I want to be the boss."”
“As mass production has to be accompanied by mass consumption, mass consumption, in turn, implies a distribution of wealth ... to provide men with buying power. ... Instead of achieving that kind of distribution, a giant suction pump had by 1929-30 drawn into a few hands an increasing portion of currently produced wealth. ... The other fellows could stay in the game only by borrowing. When their credit ran out, the game stopped.”
“And once again I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.”
“It seems that 'national security' is the root password to the Constitution. As with any dishonest superuser, the best countermeasure is strong encryption.”
“The other death for an actor is comparing yourself to other people: Forget someone else's path. Concentrate on your path. Otherwise, you get lost, and if you don't have joy in the work, forget it.”
“Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them.”
“Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?”

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