Age of reason Quote by Neil Postman

“Print could be wielded by the purveyors of prejudice as well as by the combatants for civilization”

— Helmut Walser Smith

“The American experiment was based on the emergence in the second half of the eighteenth century of a fresh new possibility in human affairs:…

— Al Gore

“Europe needed printing because it was bursting with creativity. New ideas in the arts and sciences, as well as in social justice and religion,…

— Mark Kurlansky

“For the last five centuries, ever since Gutenberg's printing press made book reading a popular pursuit, the linear, literary mind has been at the…

— Nicholas Carr

“...printing and the proliferation of written materials allowed ordinary people to be members of any number of relational communities.”

— Wendy Griswold

The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of power to…

— Harold Innis

In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further. With the…

— George Orwell

“Written words, if carefully laid down, represent the civilized ideal of reason.”

— Brian Herbert

“Humanism had begun in Florence, Italy, about 20 years before the invention of the printing press. Many scholars there were astonished at how freely…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“the 19th century saw the rise of what we came to call linear thought, a way of processing the world that was made possible…

— Alena Graedon

The discovery of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century implied the beginning of a return to a type of civilization dominated by…

— Harold Innis