Brave new world Quote by Robert MacNeil Download Open image ““Television is the soma of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.”” — Robert MacNeil ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aldous Huxley Brave new world Television Tv
“Huxley grasped, as Orwell did not, that it is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“The early advocates of universal literacy and a free press…did not foresee…the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“What we are confronted with now is the problem posed by the economic and symbolic structure of television. Those who run television do not… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“The great tragedy of science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.” — THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY” — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
[One of my kids ]is not named after Aldous Huxley. I haven't even read Brave New World! — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
“Suppose it becomes the acknowledged purpose of inventors and engineers, observed Aldous Huxley, to provide ordinary people with the means of 'doing profitable and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Somehow, television made behavior that you would go out of your way to avoid in real life into something fascinating.” — Jean Thompson Copy Share Image
“It was definitely a new way of life for people who had become so used to being entertained by televisions, computers and technology." -from… — Sara F. Hathaway Copy Share Image
“...because television had become the primary means through which people appropriated the world, it promulgated an epistemology in which all information, whatever the source,… — Neal Gabler Copy Share Image
“TV demands so little of us. It anesthetizes our worried minds and breeds mental laziness.” — Steve Whigham Copy Share Image
“Television is all right, I've nothing against it, but I don't like how it turns you away from the rest of the world and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary. — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself. — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
I think one of the lessons we learn in life - and it's an old lesson, but each of us has to learn it,… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
“If you love the language, the greatest thing you can do to ensure its survival is not to complain about bad usage but to… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
Wordstruck is exactly what I was—and still am: crazy about the sound of words, the look of words, the taste of words, the feeling… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
“He always wrote on the flyleaf of each new book the date and where he was, so I can follow him: reading Chesterton just… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
Words make another place, a place to escape to with your spirit alone. — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
“We develop ulcers, high blood pressure, headaches, and other physical problems in part because our stress systems aren’t designed to handle the “dangers” of… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
“In other words, I feel that the nightmare of Nineteen Eighty-Four is destined to modulate into the nightmare of a world having more resemblance… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“remote work has opened the door to a new era of freedom and luxury. A brave new world beyond the industrial-age belief in The… — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
“They dream of a world in which their simple and radical way of experiencing and perceiving reality would dominate; [35] where they would, of… — Andrzej Lobaczewski Copy Share Image
“Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter when the promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath a clear blue… — Pink Floyd Copy Share Image
“Huxley grasped, as Orwell did not, that it is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“O brave new world, O brave new world...' In his mind the singing words seemed to change their tune. They had mocked him through… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man- There are only four things certain since Social Progress began:-… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Welcome to the brave new world of American multiculturalism. From a nation of diverse peoples united by a common culture, we have become a… — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
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