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- For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is located in Las…
- Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a simple and efficient…
- The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on…
- But in the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and of our end is, to…
- In Russia, writers with serious grievances are arrested, while in America they are merely featured on television talk shows, where all that is arrested is…
- We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if something could be…
- [It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. […] The…
- The television commercial is not at all about the character of products to be consumed. It is about the character of the consumers of products.…
- Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages the world becomes…
- Through the computer, the heralds say, we will make education better, religion better, politics better, our minds better — best of all, ourselves better. This…
- Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must banish from your…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle