Evgeny Morozov Quotes

If you want to plan a revolution, you never do it in public - the authorities show up and arrest everyone.

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• I join with Governor Rick Snyder and thousands of grassroots supporters and activists from across the state of Michigan in asking you all to please help me in supporting Pete Hoekstra, who I am proud to endorse. He will be our next United States senator.

  

  Candice S. Miller
  • United States
  • Senator
  • Supporters

• Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Why
  • Door
  • Speak

• If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Respect

• I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Like
  • Novel
  • Careers

• I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Character
  • Want
  • Understand

• Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Mind
  • Single
  • Never

• My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Marriage

• There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Better
  • Theory
  • Before

• American society loves to prop people up and then take them down.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Up
  • American

• Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • Smart
  • Really
  • Thinkers

• I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Rock
  • Interested
  • Not Interested

• Frank Miller is more of a visionary than any director I've ever worked with, and he achieves that vision better than anyone I've ever worked with.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Vision
  • Better
  • Visionary

• I kind of get a next-gen game machine, but competing for the home entertainment business? We'll see how that goes.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Home
  • Business
  • Game

• The sight of Oakland sprawling on the horizon gave Emily’s spirits an additional boost. Oakland was by no means lovely, but it meant they were almost to San Francisco.

  

  M. K. Hobson

• To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however 'good' I may become, remains unchanged.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Good
  • May
  • Guilty

• A tinker’s debt is always paid:Once for any simple trade.Twice for freely given aid.Thrice for any insult made.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Simple

• He understands not only with his brain but with his heart. And that might be called love. Not quite sure, but maybe that's the key.

  

  Anne Bancroft
  • Heart
  • Brain

• How are we to reconcile our supreme duty towards memory with the need to forget that is essential to life? No generation has had to confront this paradox with such urgency. The survivors wanted to communicate everything to the living: the victim's solitude and sorrow, the tears of mothers driven to madness, the prayers of the doomed beneath a fiery sky.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Life
  • Sky
  • Tears

• Going to work is probably my favorite thing to do. I do that five days a week for probably ten hours a day, but it doesn't even feel like work and it shouldn't. When you enjoy a job so much like I do, it's not work, it's play.

  

  Kelli Berglund
  • Work
  • Job

• Harry Dresden: I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.

  

  Jim Butcher
  • Great
  • Real
  • Superhero

• You can't allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, 'Merry Christmas?' Give me a break. If people don't like it, yeah, they can go do something else.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Afraid
  • Forces
  • Shut Up

• The 'Terror' of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Revolution

• Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies in North Africa, where the numbered parts were reassembled into temples - the idea took on a new impetus with the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution.

  

  Martin Filler
  • Long
  • History
  • Revolution

• If you want to plan a revolution, you never do it in public - the authorities show up and arrest everyone.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Revolution
  • Authority