Douglas Rushkoff Quotes

If we want to live freely and privately in the interconnected world of the twenty-first century - and surely we do - perhaps above all we need a revival of the small-town civility of the nineteenth century. Manners, not devices: sometimes it's just better not to ask, and better not to look.

There's always a sense that people will do things quite differently if they think they have privacy.

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

Can public men have private lives?

The idea of a private life has been eroded in the sphere of politics.

What people do in their own homes is their business, and you can choose to love whoever you love. That's their business. It's no different than discriminating against blacks. It's discrimination, plain and simple.

I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.

Homophobia is very, very difficult to root out, to extricate. That's why we have to bear witness. That's why we have to be so public about it, and that's why we can't just play footsie with it.

This is a free country, madam. We have a right to share your privacy in a public place.

Part of the problem is we had so far to go, given the deep homophobia in our society. But, the movement is very real. The movement is very real.

We have managed to make the celebration of diversity our mode of resistance.

Absolutely the greatest challenges in dealing with discrimination are with the larger group who needs to consider how they think and act in everyday life. It remains the possibility of the majority to accept the call to change.

I mean, if you want to hurt yourself, go ahead. It's like, if you want to jack off, go ahead, just don't 'spoo' on a public bus or something . Do whatever you want to do. Just don't get it in somebody else's face.

Yeah, I know I should be fighting for gay rights, but who wants to join the army or get married anyway?

Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing is none of my business' and 'What I am doing is none of your business.'

To sing about freedom and to pray for its coming is not enough. Freedom must be actualized in history by oppressed peoples who accept the intellectual challenge to analyze the world for the purpose of changing it.

I want to re-visit everything. We're people and we're so different. I think it would just be nice if it wasn't just like, "Eww, women." That would be a big thing for me.

I do believe people ought to be left alone. I don't care who you are or what you do at home or who your friends are or where you hang out, what kind of music you listen to, what you do in your home is your own business. That's always been who I am. I am a leave me alone kind of guy.

You'd never catch me dancing on tables in public. I have no desire to be known for my personal life.

The final battle against intolerance is to be fought - not in the chambers of any legislature - but in the hearts of men.

Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else.

I may have no idea what I'm talking about," I said, a little ticked off now. "But we're all a part of a minority waiting for a majority to pull their heads out of their asses.

I actually feel pretty inspired and hopeful by the fact that protests are becoming the norm now. They're less part of fringe society and more a part of mainstream society. That's exciting. There is no fringe anymore. We should all be included.

When the message out there is so horrible that, to be gay, you can get killed for it... we need to change the message!!