We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.
Conservation & Environment ProtectionDavid SuzukiA community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
DemocracyA. Philip RandolphI think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
FoolishnessRuben BladesIs it that we collectively thought Steve Jobs was a great man, even when we knew he made billions off the backs of children? Or maybe it's that it feels like all our heroes are counterfeit. The world itself's just one big hoax. Spamming each other with out running commentary of bullshit masquerading as insight, our social media faking as intimacy. Or is it that we voted for this? Not with our rigged elections, but with our things, our property, our money. I'm not saying anything new. We all know why we do this, not because "Hunger Games" books makes us happy but because we wanna be sedated. Because it's painful not to pretend, because we're cowards. Fuck society.
FacebookElliot Alderson in Mr. Robot, Season 1 Episode 1The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.
TruthGeorge OrwellThe saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Knowledge, Science, WisdomIsaac AsimovWe live in a world where losing your iPhone is more dramatic than losing your virginity.
Sex@WillyFerrellThe first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse.
FoolishnessOrhan Pamuk in Istanbul: Memories and the City