John Curtis Quotes

Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly.

It feels like every day or two, people on Twitter and the Internet are outraged about something.

Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

Social media is something of a double-edged sword. At its best, social media offers unprecedented opportunities for marginalized people to speak and bring much needed attention to the issues they face. At its worst, social media also offers 'everyone' an unprecedented opportunity to share in collective outrage without reflection.

You see in times of crisis that extremist forces, populist forces, have a better ground to oversimplify things and to manipulate feelings. Feelings of fear.

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.

Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

It's scary to me to watch the world around us get less and less physical while in the imaginary world of pop culture, aggressive impulses and fear reactions are floridly, furiously stoked and indulged.

The histories of Tiberius and Caligula, of Claudius and Nero, were falsified, while they remained alive, out of dread–and then after their deaths were composed under the influence of still festering hatreds.

In politics you win by division.

He that is not with me is against me.

We have seen in Washington the worst kind of partisanship, the worst kind of gridlock. There is nothing wrong with our country. There is much wrong with our politics ….

There shall be no neutrals. Men shall either like or dislike me.

I've got about 5 million followers on Twitter, and if I tweet anything, there will be faux outrage.

Those who seek to profit by division don't stand a chance.

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

Facebook Algorithms have got us all screwed up, where we only listen and talk to people with the same views as us, and I think it's not helping us as a culture to grow.

Trump's words do have power. Power to inspire and influence. Also power to intimidate and incite fear.

Facebook's greatest strength - its ability to identify and connect like-minded people - is also a major vulnerability.

Negativity sells.

What doesn't allow us to move forward because when we simply - and I've seen it on social media; it really, really upsets me - is to get in our corners and call names and turn our back to each other.

Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.

I know that when people pull apart, they usually employ misunderstanding as a weapon, deliberately getting hold of the stick's wrong end, impaling themselves on its point in order to prove the perfidy of the other.

Oh, but Masha, can’t you see? You are. An Ivan has come. That is like saying, Midnight has struck. It is time for bed, little one. You cannot have both. In war you must always choose sides. One or the other. Silver or black. Human or demon. If you try to be a bridge laid down between them, they will tear you in half.

That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.