By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.... From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent wetness all day long, get the laundry twice as white, and kill people with a variety of sophisticated armaments.
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Time has convinced me of one thing: Television is for appearing on--not for looking at.
Time has convinced me of one thing: Television is for appearing on--not for looking at.
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is read more
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence read more
America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.
America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren read more
The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.
Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?
Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?
I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to "the common good", but by the productive genius of free men read more
America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to "the common good", but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes
