Evgeny Morozov Quotes

In part, slacktivism is what happens when the energy of otherwise dedicated activists is wasted on approaches that are less effective than the alternatives.

Evgeny Morozov

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• I was very good in all the maths and sciences.

  

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• Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

  

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• Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.

  

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• Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

  

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• I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

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• Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.

  

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• Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.

  

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• Sometimes I wonder why I'm not working at McDonald's and how come I have the life I have. I don't know. But I'm happy that I have these choices. That's kinda sappy, huh? But whatever, acting beats pumping gas.

  

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• I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.

  

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• I'm not a kid anymore. And I'm excited for all the amazing things to come.

  

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• Thug: You're gonna give us $10,000, or we're gonna break both your legs.

  

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• To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.

  

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• I know there are women, like my best friends, who would have gotten out of there the minute their boyfriend gave them a gun to hide. But I didn't. I got to admit the truth. It turned me on.

  

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• I was always cycling for my dad. Then the coaches got bigger, and my results got better. Suddenly, the responsibility grows, and I'm doing it for somebody else, I'm doing it for a programme; I'm doing it for the country. I'm doing it for, like, everybody.

  

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• Whether you're on a diet, or you're looking for a go-to one bowl dinner recipe, salads should be thought of as crowd-pleasers, not a dreaded component of a meal.

  

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• In part, slacktivism is what happens when the energy of otherwise dedicated activists is wasted on approaches that are less effective than the alternatives.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Energy
  • Alternatives
  • Dedicated