"The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster."

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Source : Ernst Fischer (1969). “Art against ideology”

Ernst Fischer

#Media Quotes #Boss Quotes #Mind Quotes

“In the best of all worlds, the producers would take some responsibility for the kinds of things they're putting out. Unfortunately, they don't.”
“Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising”
“Do the structures of language and the structures of reality (by which I mean what actually happens) move along parallel lines? Does reality essentially remain outside language, separate, obdurate, alien, not susceptible to description? Is an accurate and vital correspondence between what is and our perception of it impossible? Or is it that we are obliged to use language only in order to obscure and distort reality -- to distort what happens -- because we fear it?”
“One of the biggest reasons I like coaching college ball is the kids. I feel I can impact players lives”
“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.”
“I can think that you are mistaken, but I have to be ready to give my life to maintain your right to make mistakes. I have to, though, have the right to say that you're mistaken. This is the principal of the liberal society.”
“Jazz was uplifted by what I did.”
“Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.”

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