Dumbing Down Quotes

16 quotes by 14 authors

And I can see that everything about this God has been purposely designed to poison our experience of life on earth, not to enhance it,… — Pat Condell
A secular approach is not a dumbing down, it's not reductively identifying Buddhism with one or two particular techniques of meditation, but it is actually… — Stephen Batchelor
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites… — Carl Sagan
True literacy is becoming an arcane art and the nation [United States] is steadily dumbing down. — Isaac Asimov
The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance. — Carl Sagan
Popular culture, on average, has been growing more cognitively challenging over the past thirty years, not less. Despite everything you hear about declining standards and… — Steven Johnson
At the core of what I'm doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn't mean dumbing down theater, but rather giving… — Diane Paulus
No one can know how long this dumbing-down of American religion will persist. But so long as it does, citizens should probably be more vigilant… — Mark Lilla
In Britain, we've tended to replace the kind of architectural culture valued in much of Europe with an in-flight magazine lifestyle - all branding, marketing… — David Chipperfield
I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go. — Sam Neill
I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies. — Elmer Bernstein
The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America… — Gary Ackerman
The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them. — Stephen Sondheim
Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started 'Wine Library TV.' They thought I was dumbing down wine, but I always knew I… — Gary Vaynerchuk
Getting proper change back at McDonalds: It's not rocket science, but it might as well be. — Rock Cowles
Government Education is an oxymoron. It is indoctrination. Lay still, little sheep, or The Wolf will get you. — Rock Cowles

Who Wrote These Dumbing Down Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 16 Dumbing Down Quotes as follows: