16th century advertisements cannot market 21st century products. Look for what is necessary at the present moment.

— Israelmore Ayivor

...21st century leaders use their brain cells more than their muscle tissue!

— Israelmore Ayivor

Almost every time I speak to teenagers, particularly young female students who want to talk to me about feminism, I find myself staggered by how much they have read, how creatively they think and how curiously bullshit-resistant they are. Because of the subjects I write about, I am often contacted by young people and I see it as a part of my job to reply to all of them - and doing so has confirmed a suspicion I’ve had for some time. I think that the generation about to hit adulthood is going to be rather brilliant. Young people getting older is not, in itself, a fascinating new cultural trend. Nonetheless, the encroaching adulthood and the people who grew up in a world where expanding technological access collided with the collapse of the neoliberal economic consensus is worth paying attention to. Because these kids are smart, cynical and resilient, and I don’t mind saying that they scare me a little.

— Laurie Penny

A woman is not only a man.

— June Seong

Cell phones are certainly not necessary, and "but I'm from the digital age, this is what everyone in my generation is doing!" isn't a very good excuse for being hooked on a glowing screen 24/7. In the 1960s every teen of the times was tripping on acid and running off to find themselves in communes and love buses. It was a fad, there was no excuse for it, and it passed, just like I think that this generation's "cell phones are necessary for socialization" fad will eventually pass. What will it bring afterward? I don't even want to know, but I'll keep my fingers crossed and hope that it isn't anything else digital.

— Rebecca McNutt

... common sense is the one thing that will certainly be wrong.

— George Friedman

Enjoy without injury, live without loss.

— Amit Kalantri

Ernest chose to go, she finally thinks, watching the fire turn the papers black. He loved her but he could not live anymore.

— Naomi Wood

Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. It refers to the despised of achievement, the vandal, the status denier, the iconoclast, who refuses to acknowledge any ranking rules or hierarchy. Whoever wishes to understand the twentieth century must always keep the barbaric factor in view. Precisely in more recent modernity, it was and still is typical to allow an alliance between barbarism and success before a large audience, initially more in the form of insensitive imperialism, and today in the costumes of that invasive vulgarity which advances into virtually all areas through the vehicle of popular culture. That the barbaric position in twentieth-century Europe was even considered the way forward among the purveyors of high culture for a time, extending to a messianic of uneducatedness, indeed the utopia of a new beginning on the clean slate of ignorance, illustrates the extent of the civilization crisis this continent has gone through in the last century and a half - including the Cultural Revolution downwards, which runs through the twentieth century in our climes and casts its shadow ahead onto the twenty-first.

— Peter Sloterdijk

For me, all those systematic Bureaucracies of traditional schools jaded me. For me, I still I couldn’t understand why we have to have a factory style education for children living in the 21st century. Why hold them in place, asking them to read and repeat and giving them a number of tasks to finish? I still have no idea how exams and objective assessments could measure human behavior or intelligence. Is it some kind of barcoding human aptitude? Is it ethical anyway?

— Neda Aria