Social Trade-off Quotes

Our need for public safety and our need for privacy are crashing into each other and we've got to sort that out.

How far are we to go in pursuit of greater security at the cost of essential liberties?

Satisfy a few to please many is bad.

In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.

You either have a great social life and shitty taste in music, or a fantastic taste in music with barely any social life.

The complicated, ambiguous milieu of human contact is being replaced with simple, scalable equations. We maintain thousands more friends than any human being in history, but at the cost of complexity and depth. Every minute spent online is a minute of face-to-face time lost.

The price of democratic survival in a world of totalitarianism is to give up some of the democratic luxuries of the past.

Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.

As an actor, depending on who you are, you might be stopped on the street and might not get all the privacy you want, but I'd rather have that than no human connection whatsoever.

we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.

We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.

More and more, we’re willing to give up certain elements of a personal autonomy to gain greater control over others.

All appointments hurt. Five friends are made cold or hostile for every appointment: no new friends are made.