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India is conservative on the outside, but becoming more liberal inside. A lot of my stories are about the double life that younger India has to lead…. The conflict between conservatism and liberal values.
— Chetan BhagatIndian Author & Novelist Known for Best-Selling Fiction Books
Human beings are naturally liberal about these things, human beings are naturally in pursuit of wealth and in pursuit of love and in pursuit of pleasure. I think that happens more in the West or in developed places because it's more accepted there.
— Chetan BhagatIndian Author & Novelist Known for Best-Selling Fiction Books
My work depends on knowing real India, not the 'exotic' stereotype.
— Chetan BhagatIndian Author & Novelist Known for Best-Selling Fiction Books
No nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
— Abraham FlexnerEducational reformer who revolutionized medical education standards in America
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
— Dwight D. EisenhowerSupreme Commander of Allied Forces & 34th U.S. President
I do agree though, that in recent years receiving abuse online has been normalised to the extent that I expect it and know there's very little I can do to stop people from saying these things.
— Hussein KesvaniI noticed trolling because I was a troll when I was a teenager. I was one of those guys who spent a lot of time on forums at the weekend – trolling people. Back then, it was more like pranking; sending people a dud-link that would send them to a weird cartoon or porn site.
— Hussein KesvaniOnline trolling and abuse is a real problem now. A lot of people who want to express an opinion now are fearful that they'll get piled-on. And there's no real immunity from it.
— David BaddielBritish comedian, writer, and television personality; co-founder of Fantasy Football League
I first heard about Twitter through a journalist friend of mine called India Knight. She said, 'it's fantastic, like a cocktail party where all of your best friends have turned up!'- she was right, it was like that, for about 15 seconds….
— David BaddielBritish comedian, writer, and television personality; co-founder of Fantasy Football League
Inside all of us though, is that inner deviant – who wants to unleash chaos, collect power and acquire status. The internet provides a perfect medium for this deviant (our inner 'troll') to flourish – giving anonymity and 'identity loss' – breaking that social contract and freeing us to test the boundaries of the acceptable.
— Not specifiedI had this burning passion in me to prove to myself, and on behalf of other women, that if my voice was being stifled... and if I was being treated a certain way... that I had to stand up. What type of example would I set to other women and girls? I had to show that if you get knocked off the horse, you get right back up.
— Whitney Wolfe HerdFounder and CEO of dating app Bumble, feminist entrepreneur
Women were never in the driver's seat with dating. It always came down to the man to take the lead, to ask the girl... There was this playbook where the guy has the power, the girl is weak and fragile waiting to be saved by Prince Charming... and this is disempowering for both sides.
— Whitney Wolfe HerdFounder and CEO of dating app Bumble, feminist entrepreneur
The only way to engineer virality and make a product work is to understand the consumer, and that changes from city to city, from country to country.
— Whitney Wolfe HerdFounder and CEO of dating app Bumble, feminist entrepreneur
Credentials don't always define who someone is, or who they're going to be.
— Whitney Wolfe HerdFounder and CEO of dating app Bumble, feminist entrepreneur
Comedy delivers the cerebral and the hyperbole, it can be funny and serious. You can see that ability for the pendulum to swing both ways when you watch the best comedians perform.
— Hasan MinhajComedian and former Daily Show correspondent known for Netflix special "Patriot Act
Comedy chips at people in power, particularly those who use tyrannical power. It strips their fake respect, and destroys the fake fear they create; and these are people who rely on being respected, and being feared.
— Bassem YoussefEgyptian comedian and political satirist known for "The Daily Show" parody