"We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late."

Source : Radio-Television News Directors Association Convention Address, delivered 15 October 1958, Chicago, Illinois

Edward R. Murrow

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“How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?”

Source : "This is a clash of civilisations - between reason and superstition" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2006.
“God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.”
“Happiness too is inevitable.”
“[Pope Francis] continued to focus on migrants. He visited the Greek island of Lesbos, which was the front line of the European migrant crisis. And a month later, he accepted a prestigious European Union prize, but he scolded Europe for its treatment of migrants. And in a speech echoing Martin Luther King, he said I have a dream of a Europe where being a migrant is not a crime. So, yeah, he showed he can be quite outspoken on political issues.”
“Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.”
“Because its hard to realize now that that was the end of the great depression, you know. All of a sudden all of this is in front of me and I'm solvent, you know. I'm making some money and I know where my next meal is coming from, and I have a new pair of shoes and that's it.”
“What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.”

Source : B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.282, Hackett Publishing
“That's what a conscience is made of, scar tissue ... Little strips and pieces of remorse sewn together year by year until they formed a distinctive pattern, a design for living.”

Source : Margaret Millar (2017). “Do Evil in Return”, p.73, Soho Press

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