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World Quotes by Neil Postman
- Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us to favor and…
- When media make war against each other, it is a case of world- views in collision.
- 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…
- A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.
- 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…
- 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…
- Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages the world becomes…
- For in the end, he was trying to tell us what afflicted the people in 'Brave New World' was not that they were laughing instead…
- I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to…
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani