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"That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats."

Timothy Garton Ash on Communication

More quotes about Communication

• "A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation."

  Mark Twain on Communication

• "Truthful words are not beautiful beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive persuasive words are not good."

  Lao Tzu on Communication

• "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."

  George Bernard Shaw on Communication

• "Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true."

  Charles Dickens on Communication

• "I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in."

  Bill Gates on Communication

More quotes by Timothy Garton Ash

• "Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important, their attitude to immigration and ethnic minorities is more positive than that of most Europeans."

• "Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important, their attitude to immigration and ethnic minorities is more positive than that of most Europeans."

• "That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats."

• "Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion."