Quote by Richard Layard

Poorer people tend to watch more television because they can't afford other diversions.

— Ken Auletta

“For example, “the richest Americans, those earning more than $ 10 million annually, reported levels of personal happiness only slightly greater than the office…

— Ken Robinson

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

— Kent Hughes

“I bet if I spent less time with the television and more time pursuing activities that enhance my life and expand my knowledge, I…

— Jen Lancaster

“the more people get, the more they want. And the less happy they are with what they already have.”

— Sean Platt

“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

“Cheap people often are not very happy because they love money more than they love their families”

— Celso Cukierkorn

“When people can afford necessities in life, an increase in income dones not result in a significantly happier life.”

— Richard Wiseman

“The scholars who research happiness suggest that more money stops making people happier at a family income of around seventy-five thousand dollars a year.…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“TV demands so little of us. It anesthetizes our worried minds and breeds mental laziness.”

— Steve Whigham

While television can help normalize the lives of marginalized people, it also can exploit their hardships and reinforce stereotypes, reducing their lives to mere…

— Zoey Tur

“Or / privately with you, when we’re watching television and everyone else can be depressed as rotten logs for all we care, because various…

— Jack Underwood