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Because of cyberattacks and fake news, we can already imagine the problem all democratic societies will face in future elections: how to limit lies when they threaten democracy?
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Future
News
Democracy
Problem
Will
Face
Fake News
Lies
Threaten
Democratic
Democratic Societies
Because
Limit
Fake
How
Elections
Societies
Imagine
American intelligence and military agencies have a huge footprint in terms of how the world works, but they're largely invisible. I'm interested in exploring those 'geographies' of secrecy from many different angles: political, legal, economic, spatial, etc., because I am fundamentally just interested in how the world works and how societies work.
Trevor Paglen
Work
Legal
Intelligence
World
Political
Military
Secrecy
Those
Angles
Economic
Invisible
Footprint
Terms
Because
How
Am
Huge
American
Just
Different
Different Angles
Etc
Interested
Agencies
Spatial
Exploring
Many
Works
Largely
Societies
Fundamentally
What sort of Europe do we want to have? Parallel societies? Muslim communities living together with the Christian community?
Viktor Orban
Together
Community
Living
Christian
Muslim
Parallel
Sort
Want
Communities
Europe
Societies
Al Jazeera should understand the societies, should understand the culture of the civilisation, should understand the dynamics of the societies, should be part of this understanding; and on the other level, Al Jazeera should concentrate on the margin rather than the centre. It means that Al Jazeera should be close to the public.
Wadah Khanfar
Culture
Understanding
Other
Rather
Civilisation
Part
Concentrate
Understand
Close
Than
Dynamics
Public
Centre
Should
Means
Al
Al Jazeera
Level
Margin
Societies
Throughout history, when societies have been faced with big challenges, they've put their best people on them. During the Space Race, American and Russian scientists, engineers, astronauts and cosmonauts pushed the bounds of what was possible and landed men on the moon.
Wendy Kopp
Best
History
Challenges
People
Space
Moon
Men
Big
Astronauts
Possible
Faced
Russian
Throughout
Pushed
Put
Bounds
Scientists
Been
American
Race
Them
Landed
Engineers
Societies
Primitive societies without religion have never been found.
William Dean Howells
Religion
Never
Primitive
Without
Been
Found
Societies
Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.
William Odom
Love
Become
Fall
Military
Other
Meet
Admiration
Mutual
Tend
Countries
Sort
Officers
Expense
Different
Different Countries
Realities
Each
Societies
The concentration of wealth in the hands of the few threatens the ability of ordinary people to raise their voices and have a say over how our societies are run.
Winnie Byanyima
People
Wealth
Few
Our
Say
Run
Ability
Threatens
Voices
Over
Concentration
How
Hands
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Societies
Raise
A 'human right' is, by definition, timeless. It cannot adhere to some societies and not others, at some times and not at other times.
Tom Stoppard
Other
Others
Adhere
Definition
Some
Timeless
Times
Human
Cannot
Human Right
Right
Societies
I think ageing is challenging, surprising, fun, and full of friendship, so that is the approach I'll take, objecting to the stigmatization of ageing in so many modern societies.
Martha Nussbaum
Friendship
Think
Approach
I Think
Take
Surprising
Modern
Ageing
Full
Fun
Many
Challenging
Societies
Whether you speak English, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, everybody can speak wrestling and it's really cool to go to different cultures and societies and see how the littlest things we do as performers influence the biggest things.
Jake Hager
You
Speak
Everybody
See
Russian
Wrestling
Performers
How
Go
Cultures
Influence
Different
Biggest
Whether
Chinese
Different Cultures
Spanish
Biggest Things
Really
English
Cool
Things
Societies
This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.
Salman Rushdie
World
Islam
Project
Those
Muslim
Paranoid
Blames
Rival
Proposed
Remedy
Outsider
Version
Closing
Which
Modernity
Ills
Growing
Whose
Societies
Fastest
We should all be able to live as human beings - and to be recognized as such by the societies we live in.
Chelsea Manning
Live
Recognized
Able
Human
Human Beings
Should
Beings
Societies
One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.
P. J. O'Rourke
History
World
Problems
East
True
Lot
Just
Middle
Middle East
Enduring
Places
Capacity
Certain
Certainly
Societies
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