I'm a bit ambivalent on the issue, because if the quote is any good, it should stand on its own without appeal to any authority or writer.
But then we have the quotes that are quite banale in nature, but where the use of said quotes have been taken as validation by extremists, bolstering them in their rather dangerous belief, that secretly everyone agrees with then, and thus the ends justifies the means.
For now I brandish unattributed quotes with reckless abandon in settings where I know everyone, but try to do some basic research in public settings, not because attribution is important, but because others might.
Though for me the quick quips of quotes is a lens which can be used to shine some light on some aspect of our lives and world, it's as much a folly to rely on them as anything else. They capture is a single snapshot of an almost infinitely complex world and are as such almost always exactly as wrong as they are right, although in unusually interesting ways.
But then we have the quotes that are quite banale in nature, but where the use of said quotes have been taken as validation by extremists, bolstering them in their rather dangerous belief, that secretly everyone agrees with then, and thus the ends justifies the means.
For now I brandish unattributed quotes with reckless abandon in settings where I know everyone, but try to do some basic research in public settings, not because attribution is important, but because others might.
Though for me the quick quips of quotes is a lens which can be used to shine some light on some aspect of our lives and world, it's as much a folly to rely on them as anything else. They capture is a single snapshot of an almost infinitely complex world and are as such almost always exactly as wrong as they are right, although in unusually interesting ways.