Neil Postman Quotes

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 comercials.

Neil Postman

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• Exchange
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• Entertain
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• Propositions

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• People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • World
  • Change

• In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Religious
  • Vision

• We don't want to abandon any of the market we have now. We just want to gain new market.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Want
  • New
  • Now

• We acquire the strength we have overcome.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Strength
  • Overcome
  • Acquire

• I always hated perfect TV moms because I always thought that was unrealistic.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Perfect
  • Thought
  • Because

• The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they make you feel that you can love everybody.

  

  Larry Brilliant
  • Great
  • Love
  • Feel

• In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Want
  • Writer
  • Incarnation

• When I was a boy in Salem, Mass., in the 1950s, if you wanted to buy a book, you had to take a train to Boston. And when you got there, to a bookstore, there was no such thing as a science-fiction section.

  

  Gardner Dozois
  • Book
  • Science
  • Boy

• It's an honor to support such a worthy program. TURF aims to protect the integrity of tailgating and to keep game day family-friendly.

  

  Boomer Esiason
  • Family
  • Game
  • Support

• A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Life
  • Growing
  • Devotion

• Faith is indispensable for success. Faith is induced and strengthened by the instructions you give your subconscious mind.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • Success
  • Faith

• Not true at all. Vaseline is manufactured right here in the United States.

  

  Don Sutton
  • True
  • United States
  • Manufacture

• To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Character
  • Peace
  • Politics

• It is not enough to accept boredom, you must embrace it. It is only when you have completely embraced it that you can go beyond it.

  

  Albert Low
  • Embrace
  • Boredom
  • Beyond

• I think it's good for anybody to learn languages. Americans are particularly limited in that way. Europeans less so... We're beginning to have Spanish move in on English in the states because of all the people coming from Hispanic countries... and we're beginning to learn some Spanish. And I think that's a good thing... Only having one language is very limiting... You get to think that's the way the human race is made; there's only one language worth speaking... Well, this isn't good for English.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • People
  • Good
  • Way

• They're hitting harder now more than ever. The only person who would argue that is someone who has never had a physics class. They're faster and stronger, so the reality is the collisions have to be bigger.

  

  Randy Cross
  • Reality
  • Person
  • Physics

• In a time like this, when records are not selling, he's the only one that is selling. You know, Drake and all the other ones [did well], but Em did [close to] 800,000 his first week, and he's #1 for the fifth week. It's incredible. I think he has a faithful fan base of people who have been following him for years. They're not going to stop following him and not stop listening to his music. Em said he didn't like his last album as much as this one. You can hear the difference. I like both of the albums. '3 a.m.' is one of my joints. But Eminem has followers that's gonna mess with him until the day he dies.

  

  Tony Yayo
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Differences

• 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 comercials.

  

  Neil Postman
  • Americans
  • Exchange
  • Argue