Neil Postman Quotes
It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.
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Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.
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When you get your opportunities, you've just got to go with what they said... I'll do what's necessary wherever they put me.
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I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary.
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I don't know that I've ever bought anything online. I'm about 10 years behind the technological curve, I think.
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Every technological revolution takes about 50 years.
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We have to find in Christ, not a mask that conceals our face, but an entire wardrobe of clothing, which is His righteousness.
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For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life.
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It is neither necessary nor appropriate for the president to testify.
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David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't have any such illusions.
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He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.
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Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.
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Turkish soldiers are very brave. They love their homeland and they do not hesitate to give their lives for it if necessary.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Between a Man and his Wife nothing ought to rule but Love. Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
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The health and vigor necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body.
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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
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Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate.
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In drawing an inference or conclusion from facts proved, regard must always be had to the nature of the particular case, and the facility that appears to be afforded, either of explanation or contradiction. No person is to be required to explain or contradict, until enough has been proved to warrant a reasonable and just conclusion against him, in the absence of explanation or contradiction.
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If a reader believes that everything in nonfiction or history is just objectively true, I don't really know what to tell them, except that at least in fiction, the choice of what perspective and bias to tell a given story from - which is always a deliberate choice - is foregrounded and clear.
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In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.
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It's only the immortal thing that a man can be judged on, that bit of himself that he makes as he does the best he can with what fate handed out to him.
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The world is new to us every morning - and every man should believe he is reborn each day
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It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.
