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Discourse Quotes by Neil Postman
- My argument is limited to saying that a major new medium changes the structure of discourse; it does so by encouraging certain uses of the…
- The line-by-line, sequential, continuous form of the printed page slowly began to lose its resonance as a metaphor of how knowledge was to be acquired…
- TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education,…
- Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But…
- Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages the world becomes…
More Discourse Quotes
- Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as… — Henry David Thoreau
- On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new… — Ed Gillespie
- Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things… — William S. Burroughs
- If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether… — Taisen Deshimaru
- While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters… — John O. Brennan
- One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure... worried about the economy, worried about… — Nick Clegg
- If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it… — Eric Alterman
- Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men. — Samuel Johnson