Bill Kraus famous quotes

Those who depend on television as their primary information source are condemned to .... A form of political illiteracy.
-- Bill Kraus

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Cities are gentrified by the following types of people in sequence: first the risk-oblivious (artists), then the risk-aware (developers), finally the risk adverse (dentists from New Jersey).
-- Bill Kraus

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You make a living from 8 to 5, but you make money from 5 to 8.
-- Bill Kraus

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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.

Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?

Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

I watch a lot of television. I always have.

These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.

Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.