Media Quotes

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

Camille Paglia

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

Robert Francis Kennedy

Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Eric Sevareid

Whoops is a word that should never be said by some professions - Pilots, Racing car drivers, and hair colourists come immediately to mind but Dentists also have to be up in the top five.

Richard Stubbs, Comedian, Book - " Still Life".

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.

Samuel Johnson, Taxation No Tyranny

It is the contention of this observer that few homicides due to shooting could be avoided merely if a firearm were not immediately present, and that the offender would select some other weapon to achieve the same destructive goal.

Marvin E. Wolfgang

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Voltaire

Whoever controls the media - - The images - - Controls the culture.

Allen Ginsberg

There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.

Nancy Spain

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Ludwig van Beethoven

No man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.

H. L. Mencken

Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.

Charles Peters

I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12.

David Bowie

All military type firearms are to be handed in immediately... The SS, SA and Stahlhelm give every respectable German man the opportunity of campaigning with them. Therefore anyone who does not belong to one of the above named organisations and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon... must be regarded as an enemy of the national government.

SA Oberfuhrer of Bad Tolz, March, 1933.

The process of creating new, democratic organs of government power is beginning, and, as never before, the greatest responsibility rests with the broadcast media.

Eduard Sagalaev

I will remember the works of the Lord surely I will remember thy wonders of old. I will mediate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.

Psalm 7711, 12 Bible

Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Ludwig van Beethoven

I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.

Albert Camus, The Strange

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

W. H. Auden

No matter how much spin, effort, lunch or dinner you give the media, they will not fail to notice whether you have won or lost.

Robin Renwick, former British ambassador to the United States

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

Henry Kissinger, New York Times, Oct. 28, 1973

Become aware of internal, subjective subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc., with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hither unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Abraham Harold Maslow

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Prove

As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Reprimand not a child immediately on the offence. Wait till the irritation has been replaced by serenity.

Moses Hasid

Creator: a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.

H. L. Mencken

The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism.

Norman Brenne

The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast extravagantly of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God so they may make room for their own falsehoods.

John Calvin

Imagine the Creator as a stand up commedian - And at once the world becomes explicable.

H. L. Mencken

Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.

Napolean Hill

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucke

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love.

Reinhold Niebuh

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

Woody Allen

Nothing is beautiful, only man on this piece of navety rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second nothing is ugly but degenerate man - The domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Henry David Thoreau

The cost of a things is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Henry David Thoreau