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"Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Media, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Inspirational

"We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Media, Eternity, Sight

"Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone."

Susan Sontag, American Author

Media, Day, Writer

"A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Media, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

Media, Obedience

"Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation."

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

Media, Aggression, Consciousness, Manipulation, Public

"Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind."

Zhang Yimou, Chinese Director

Media, Fantasy, Mind, World

"To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Media, Truth, Power, Regret, Wisdom

"The representation of women in the society, especially through mass media has been the most delusional act ever done on the grounds of human existence."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Media, Truth, Power, Regret, Wisdom

"I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

Media, Journalism, Truth, Information

Explore more quotes by Spiro T. Agnew

"Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages."

Media, Newspapers

"The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands."

Power, People, Information

"The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap."

Past,

"Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer."

Woman, Women, Fools, May, Oceans

"All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged."

People, Desire, Objectives

"An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike."

Man,

"A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government."

Government,

"I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort."

Deception, Lying, Promise

"In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism."

Criticism, States, Today, United