Mal Fletcher Quotes

In media terms, the camera always lies, providing an edited version of reality.

The idea that education can ever be value-neutral is absurd.

Ensuring a healthy future means investing in the generation who will carry that future.

People no longer want to see themselves primarily as consumers, but as activists.

Anonymity is not necessarily something to shun; we don't have to achieve celebrity to make a mark on the world.

Technology works best when it facilitates human hope, activism, engagement & intervention.

Cohesion means respectful diversity, which is about much more than the weak-kneed tolerance.

Lasting solutions to many social problems will be found only as we each learn to say, 'I am society'.

Wrinkles ought to be worn as a badge of honour, as a mark of survival if not wisdom.

Marketers reinforce the idea - a false one - that celebrity is available to everyone.

Millennials aspire to marry the blue skies thinking of the Boomers with the grass-roots mindset of GenX.

The groups of which we are a part impact our decisions and our decisions shape the future.

Digital gadgets often plug us into an environment that's more cluttered than the real world.

Ethically, what one generation tolerates the next may treat as normal.

Our greatest resource is the human resource.

Nothing is more dangerous for society's future than having its young people grow old before their time.

For any alliance to work, the focus must remain on solving specific problems.

Sex education should be 'relationship education', focusing on how to achieve long-term commitment.

GenXers naturally bristle at hierarchies, but thrive on partnerships.

Celebrity is more than a culture today; it is an industry, complete with fame factories.

Societies don't become less self-indulgent; people do.

Millennials expect to create a better future, using the collaborative power of digital technology.

Is the future of humanity really about clouds you can't see and chips you can't eat?

Progress must not become progressivism, where success is measured only by achieving pragmatic results.

Ours is an age that's often obsessed with knowledge at the expense of wisdom.

We are products not of our technologies, but of our choices about how to use them.

People can only function at their best if they know that what they do actually matters beyond the corporate front door.

Confidence, not paper or digital money, is the key currency in a capitalist system.

Building a better future will depend on our ability to appreciate generational differences.