If Slaughterhouses Had Glass Walls – Sir James Paul McCartney
“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian.”
Sir James Paul McCartney
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You can´t love animals and eat them too – Vegan Wisdom
“You can´t love animals and eat them too.”
Vegane Weisheiten
Children as Question Marks and Periods – Neil Postman
“Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.”
Neil Postman
Naivety and Fear in Modern Society – Neil Postman
“We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.”
Neil Postman
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
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
Neil Postman Quote on Technology and Society
“The shock of twentieth-century technology numbed our brains and we are just beginning to notice the spiritual and social debris that our technology has strewn about us.”
Neil Postman
Information as Commodity – Neil Postman Quote
“Information is now a commodity that can be bought and sold, or used as a form of entertainment, or worn like a garment to enhance one’s status. It comes indiscriminately, directed at no one in particular, disconnected from usefulness; we are glutted with information, drowning in information, have no control over it, don’t know what to do with it.”
Neil Postman
Neil Postman: Critique of Media and Public
“It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.”
Neil Postman