The Naked Diplomat Quotes

“Facebook and Twitter didn’t create our desire to connect. Our desire to connect created Facebook and Twitter.”
― Tom Fletcher, The Naked Diplomat: Understanding Power and Politics in the Digital Age

“Benjamin Franklin put it at a time of similiar uncertainty: “those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
― Tom Fletcher, The Naked Diplomat: Understanding Power and Politics in the Digital Age

“Increasingly, it matters less what a prime minister or diplomat says is ‘our policy’ on an issue – it matters what the users of Google, Facebook or Twitter decide that it is. Set-piece”
― Tom Fletcher, The Naked Diplomat: Understanding Power and Politics in the Digital Age

“Yet the periods when diplomacy is hardest are also the periods when it matters most.”
― Tom Fletcher, The Naked Diplomat: Power and Statecraft in the Digital Century

“In years to come, people may say that the most powerful weapon in this period of the twenty-first century was not sarin gas or the nuclear bomb, but the smartphone. We”
― Tom Fletcher, The Naked Diplomat: Understanding Power and Politics in the Digital Age