Civilization Quote by Glenn Reynolds Download Open image “Imagine what things would be like if the news media actually sided with civilization.” — Glenn Reynolds ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilization Ifs Imagine Media News News media Politics Would be
The newspapers are full of what we would like to happen to us and what we hope will never happen to us. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Citizen journalism and even our ethnic press could be harmed by big companies deciding where we can get our news. — Maya Wiley Copy Share Image
A profound transformation is happening here. The framers of our nation never envisioned these huge media giants; never imagined what could happen if big government, big publishing and big broadcasters ever saw eye-to-eye in putting the public's need for news second to their own interests. I approach the end of my own long run believing more strongly than ever that… — Bill Moyers Copy Share
Nowadays we can sidestep traditional media with social media and technology that allows us to become citizen journalists, to fight against injustice by showing… — Emily Raboteau Copy Share Image
I've often wondered what it would have been like if we'd had cable news during the Vietnam War and Watergate. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
It really is my opinion that media in general are so bad that we have to question whether the world wouldn't be better off… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
News organizations would best serve the public by sticking to the facts and the news. Speculation should be minimized. — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
As much as we try to deny it, media plays a huge part in how we view the world. — Franchesca Ramsey Copy Share Image
If we turn to the war in Kosovo, what do we find? We find the manipulation of the audience's emotions by the mass media. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
I'd actually love to think that I could trust Kerry on national security. But the only way I could do that, at this point,… — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
A 'well regulated militia' was thus one that was well-trained and equipped, not one that was 'well-regulated' in the modern sense of being subjected… — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
One reason that a lot of people see me as cheerful and optimistic is that my expectations are really rather low. — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
But remember: All this talk of tolerance and diversity is basically just a way for one group of white people to pursue power over… — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
The purpose of the right to bear arms is twofold; to allow individuals to protect themselves and their families, and to ensure a body… — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
Personally, I'd be delighted to live in a country where happily married gay couples had closets full of assault weapons. — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
The nannyism is partly to distract from the corruption — and partly just another opportunity to leverage it. A good general rule is that… — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
When people say things like "don't let this moment pass without acting on gun control," what they're really saying is our arguments are so… — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
That's the thing about conspiracy theories: in a comforting sort of way, they give rise to the feeling that someone, somewhere, knows what's going… — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
Let's be honest: Kerry has no idea what it is to be even a middle-class white in this country. — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
Government, we are sometimes told, is just another word for things we choose to do together. Like a lot of things politicians say, this sounds good. And, also like a lot of things politicians say, it isn't the least bit true. Many of the things government does, we don't choose. Many of the things we choose, government doesn't do. And… — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share
Political Wire is one of the absolute must-read sites in the blogosphere. — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of… — Octavio Paz Copy Share
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the future - we are going hyper-spatial; we are claiming a whole new dimension for biology that it never claimed before. We are actually becoming a fourth-dimensional kind of creature. Our future is somehow with us, as… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image