Quotes
Quotes about Media
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
With life many things are remedied. (While there's life there's hope.) [Sp., Con la vida muchas cosas se remedian.]
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
Independence is essential for permanent but fatal to immediate success.
If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.
The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tenth or eleventh on their list.
But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
The curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.
It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny. [Lat., Pars beneficii est, quod petitur, si cito neges.]
MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.
The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right way.
When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda cross-dressed as science.
Whoever controls the media - the images - controls the culture.
The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer.
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.
Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
