Become Quote by Irvine Welsh

Television has a conscience. It is how we disseminate our value system.

— Lauren Zalaznick

While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for…

— Gretchen Rubin

Television is a formidable thinking tool. You are like an analyst to whom society's subconscious would be offered wide open…

— Serge Daney

“The fact is television doesn't simply reflect society's values. In important ways, it also legitimizes them. And more and more in recent decades it…

— Bernard Goldberg

Is television literally functioning as our conscience, tempting us and rewarding us at the same time?

— Lauren Zalaznick

Our culture's adjustment to the epistemology of television is by now all but complete; we have so thoroughly accepted its definitions of truth, knowledge…

— Neil Patrick Harris

“There is nothing wrong with entertainment. As some psychiatrist once put it, we all build castles in the air. The problems come when we…

— Neil Postman

Television can be quite corporatized: There's a pecking order and a process, and so many layers that it can take away some of the…

— Kari Skogland

TV's sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.

— Bennett Cerf

“Television has greater power over the lives of most Americans than any educational system, government, or church.”

— Kent Hughes

Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of…

— Terence McKenna

I think television is a medium which has the potential to do great things but has been traduced by these... terrible people who rise…

— Jonathan Meades