Television Quotes
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![Groucho Marx](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1198590177i/43244._UX200_CR0,28,200,200_.jpg)
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
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![Roald Dahl](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1311554908i/4273._UX200_CR0,42,200,200_.jpg)
“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
― Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
― Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
“People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.”
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![Neil Postman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1193415026i/41963.jpg)
“Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and commercials.”
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
![Michael Parenti](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1279742042i/21234._UY200_CR15,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.”
― Against Empire
― Against Empire
![Richard Dawkins](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1377030297i/1194._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“It's been suggested that if the super-naturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science. Either way, why are they wasting their talents doing party turns on television?
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.”
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By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.”
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![Stephen Chbosky](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1599132962i/12898._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.”
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
![Slavoj Žižek](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1449231598i/2340358._UX200_CR0,27,200,200_.jpg)
“[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: We like to be guilty since, if we are guilty, it all depends on us. We pull the strings of the catastrophe, so we can also save ourselves simply by changing our lives. What is really hard for us (at least in the West) to accept is that we are reduced to the role of a passive observer who sits and watches what our fate will be. To avoid this impotence, we engage in frantic, obsessive activities. We recycle old paper, we buy organic food, we install long-lasting light bulbs—whatever—just so we can be sure that we are doing something. We make our individual contribution like the soccer fan who supports his team in front of a TV screen at home, shouting and jumping from his seat, in the belief that this will somehow influence the game's outcome.”
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“If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.”
― Cat and Girl Volume I
― Cat and Girl Volume I
![Warren Ellis](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1615217087i/12772._UY200_CR22,0,200,200_.jpg)
“If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?”
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![Shannon L. Alder](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1647739446i/1391130._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.”
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![Jim Morrison](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1429658456i/7855._UX200_CR0,26,200,200_.jpg)
“Do you know we are being led to
Slaughters by placid admirals
& that fat slow generals are getting
Obscene on young blood
Do you know we are ruled by t.v.
”
― An American Prayer
Slaughters by placid admirals
& that fat slow generals are getting
Obscene on young blood
Do you know we are ruled by t.v.
”
― An American Prayer
![Fred Rogers](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1208803867i/32106._UX200_CR0,1,200,200_.jpg)
“It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood,
A beautiful day for a neighbor.
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?...
It's a neighborly day in this beauty wood,
A neighborly day for a beauty.
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?...
I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you.
I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.
So, let's make the most of this beautiful day.
Since we're together we might as well say:
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?
Won't you be my neighbor?
Won't you please,
Won't you please?
Please won't you be my neighbor?”
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A beautiful day for a neighbor.
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?...
It's a neighborly day in this beauty wood,
A neighborly day for a beauty.
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?...
I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you.
I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.
So, let's make the most of this beautiful day.
Since we're together we might as well say:
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?
Won't you be my neighbor?
Won't you please,
Won't you please?
Please won't you be my neighbor?”
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![W.H. Auden](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1631137556i/233593._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays
― The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays
![Neil Postman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1193415026i/41963.jpg)
“In America, everyone is entitled to an opinion, and it is certainly useful to have a few when a pollster shows up. But these are opinions of a quite different roder from eighteenth- or nineteenth-century opinions. It is probably more accurate to call them emotions rather than opinions, which would account for the fact that they change from week to week, as the pollsters tell us. What is happening here is that television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. I am using this world almost in the precise sense in which it is used by spies in the CIA or KGB. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information--misplace, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information--information that creates the illusion of knowing something but which in fact leads one away from knowing. In saying this, I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result. And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed. Ignorance is always correctable. But what shall we do if we take ignorance to be knowledge?”
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
![Jean Baudrillard](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1723615886i/1264._UX200_CR0,37,200,200_.jpg)
“There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you. Suddenly the TV reveals itself for what it really is; a video of another world, ultimately addressed to no one at all, delivering its own message.”
― America
― America
![Radiohead](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1298012058i/174359._UY200_CR35,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Most people gaze neither into the past nor the future; they explore neither truth nor lies. They gaze at the television.”
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![Alfred Hitchcock](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1208725187i/9420._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg)
“Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.”
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![Ray Bradbury](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1445955959i/1630._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn't time to protest, 'What nonsense!'.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
![Bill Watterson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1374016829i/13778._UY200_CR42,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?"
Television: "...it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet”
― Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages, 1985-1995: An Exhibition Catalogue
Television: "...it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet”
― Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages, 1985-1995: An Exhibition Catalogue
![Bauvard](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1358379082i/6676833._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“The problem with our society is that our values aren’t in the right place. There’s an awful lot of bleeding and naked bodies on prime-time networks, but not nearly enough cable television on public programming.”
― Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
― Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
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