Watching Television Requires No Skills – Neil Postman
“Watching television requires no skills and develops no skills. That is why there is no such thing as remedial television-watching.”
Neil Postman
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Neil Postman: Entertainment and Lack of Information in America
“. . . Americans are the best entertained and quite likely the least well-informed people in the Western world.”
Neil Postman
Learning by Asking Questions – Neil Postman
“Once you have learned to ask questions – relevant and appropriate and substantial questions – you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.”
Neil Postman
Thinking and Conditioning in Life – Joost A.M. Meerloo
“It is often disturbing to see how even intelligent people do not have straight thinking minds of their own. The pattern of the mind, whether toward conformity and compliance or otherwise, is conditioned rather early in life.”
Joost A.M. Meerloo
Wrong does not cease to be wrong – Leo Tolstoy
“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it”
Leo Tolstoi
My biggest dream is for everyone to become vegetarian – Alicia Silverstone
“My biggest dream in the world is for everyone to become vegetarian, so there won’t be any more suffering.
Alicia Silverstone”
Alicia Silverstone
Who Controls the Media – Noam Chomsky
“He who controls the media controls the minds of the public.”
Noam Chomsky
Distraction Strategy in Social Control – Noam Chomsky
“The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information.”
Noam Chomsky
Patrik Baboumian on Strength Without Eating Meat
“Someone once asked me, ‘How can you get as strong as an ox without eating any meat?’ My answer was, ‘Have you ever seen an ox eating meat?”
Patrik Baboumian
A Truly Great Man – Quote by Benjamin Franklin
“A truly great man will neither trample on a worm nor sneak to an emperor”
Benjamin Franklin