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“In many ways, digital communication appears to be altering our comfort levels with direct and honest communication and conflict resolution. Doing so will inevitably negatively affect our relationships, since important discussions should be done in person or, at the very least, over the phone so that misunderstandings could be minimized. - Psychologist Suzana E. Flores”
― Donna B McKinney, How Do Smartphones Affect Social Interaction?

“On the contrary: he has been conscripted into service by adherents of varying political outlooks eager to unfurl his banner over their causes. That Enlightenment thinkers such as Diderot and Rousseau should have found in Machiavelli a spokesman for political liberty; that nineteenth-century Italian patriots regarded him as an impassioned advocate of Italian unification; that Bolsheviks hailed him as a Marxist-Leninist outrider; that a late twentieth-century feminist academic found in his writings anxieties about the female threat to male power--these and other interpretations suggest that Machiavelli's thought is strangely malleable to any number of diametrically opposing ideologies and approaches.”
― Ross King, Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power

“The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered forms, was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes. Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation, distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away; all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life and his relations with his kind.”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

“We actually get quite a lot from casual social interactions. Even when phones are at their most useful--such as when we're bored to death in the waiting room--there might be other things we're missing out on. - Kostadin Kushlev, social psychologist at Georgetown University”
― Donna B McKinney, How Do Smartphones Affect Social Interaction?