There’s backlash about everything I do.

Ever since I started to get recognition I’ve picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

The Internet is a toilet. It is.

I see fighters make funny videos about me and stick them on Facebook and get 20 likes. When I make a video, I sell it to Fox and make seven figures. That’s the difference.

I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

Voters quickly forget what a man says.

I tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?

Now the playbook is we build AI tools to go find these fake accounts, find coordinated networks of inauthentic activity, and take them down; we make it much harder for anyone to advertise in ways that they shouldn’t be.

Generally, the view that I’ve had on Twitter is if you’re on Twitter, you’re in, like, the meme – you’re in meme war land. If you’re on Twitter, you’re in the arena. And so, essentially, if you attack me, it is therefore OK for me to attack back.

I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my friends.

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.

What ‚multiculturalism‘ boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture – and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.

There’s people that appreciate what I do; there’s people that criticize it.

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

Social media is reducing social barriers. It connects people on the strength of human values, not identities.

America is just downright mean.

There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory.

In whatever adulation you get, there’s truth and there’s not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible – there’s truth and there’s not truth. It’s human nature to like to read the adulation more.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.

The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.

Give a critic an inch, he’ll write a play.

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I’ll take my chances with the public.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

All movements go too far.

Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States – old as well as new – North as well as South.

People who don’t like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that’s how life is.

I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say… It’s like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They’re all opinions.

We just think that there are all these different ways that people want to share, and that compressing them all into a single blue app is not the right format of the future.

Frank Lloyd Wright… his things were beautiful but not very functional.

If you can’t tolerate critics, don’t do anything new or interesting.

I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I’m giving you myself in the music. There’s where the connection comes from; you can’t Twitter that.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They’re keeping up with their friends and family, but they’re also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They’re connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It’s almost a disadvantage if you’re not on it now.

Don’t judge other people. For example, if you want God’s anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It’s a technology that brings people together.

I think the American people, with some justification, think that most politicians live in la-la land.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

People want to act like they know celebrities. They want to see pictures. They want to know where you’re going. They want to hear you talk about your family.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.