"Social media's greatest assets - anonymity, 'virality,' interconnectedness - are also its main weaknesses."

-- Evgeny Morozov

#Media Quotes #Weakness Quotes #Social Quotes

“Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.”
“Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.”
“I have a glitch, too. Sometimes I forget that Iâ€™m not human. I donâ€™t think that happens to most androids.”
“Given the conditions under which you're a young person in this society, many things would be at least as important to you as your sexuality.”
“Andy [Warhol] put on his fey kind of act, but he wanted to be number one and he succeeded. But you never know. Fifty years from now he might not be seen as so important, but the way our whole culture has gone, and the way it continues to go, is his way - for better or for worse.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“Modern children were considerably less innocent than parents and the larger society supposed, and postmodern children are less competent than their parents and the society as a whole would like to believe. . . . The perception of childhood competence has shifted much of the responsibility for child protection and security from parents and society to children themselves.”

Source : David Elkind (2009). “Ties That Stress: The New Family Imbalance”, p.119, Harvard University Press
“The maplewood flat-finished Martin had represented the most outrageous luxury in her life when she bought it in 1971 for four hundred dollars. But Lonnie Slocum assured her the Martin was a good investment, even if she never learned to play it better than an acid head who was into heavy metal.”
“There are moments of despair that come sometimes, when night sets in and a white fog presses against the windows. Then our house changes its shape, rears up and becomes a place of despair. Then fear and rage run simply--and the thought of Death as a friend. This is the simplest of thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.”

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