“Social media amplifies both the good side and the dark side of human nature. … Notwithstanding human ignorance, freedom of expression is essential.”
Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2014
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Jonas Salk (1914–1995) Inventor of polio vaccine
Academy of Achievement interview (1991)
Context: Why do I see things differently from the way other people see them? Why do I pursue the questions that I pursue, even if others regard them as, as they say, "controversial?" Which merely means that they have a difference of opinion. They see things differently. I am interested both in nature, and in the human side of nature, and how the two can be brought together, and effectively used.
“Human: That's stupid. Isn't there grass on both sides?”
Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
A. James Gregor (1929–2019) American political scientist
Source: The Phoenix: Fascism in Our Time, (1999), p. 95
Prayut Chan-o-cha (1954) Thai military officer, junta chief, and politician
Source: Media Must Do More Than Report Facts, Says Prayuth http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1425556914&section=11 (5 March 2015)
“Economics is on the side of humanity now.”
Isaac Asimov book The Currents of Space
The Currents of Space (1952)
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“The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.”
Scott Westerfeld (1963) American science fiction writer
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
1940s, State of the Union Address — The Four Freedoms (1941)
Context: In the future days which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.
The first is freedom of speech and expression — everywhere in the world.
The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way — everywhere in the world.
The third is freedom from want, which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants — everywhere in the world.
The fourth is freedom from fear, which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor — anywhere in the world.
That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation.