“By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education. … From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent wetness all day long, get the laundry twice as white, and kill people with a variety of sophisticated armaments.”
—Russell Baker, columnist and author (b. 14 Aug 1925) .
Television set for Wikipedia userbox icons, or other things. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things. –Jean Baudrillard, sociologist and philosopher (1929-2007)
Jean Baudrillard ~ Soho, London (Photo credit: Robert Croma)
English: David Letterman hosting President Barack Obama at Late Show with David Letterman. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.”
David Letterman
“Parents should watch what their children watch and not use TV as a babysitter. If a show is objectionable they should turn it OFF. They should write the president of the network and tell him they are never going to watch that program again and why. ”
Niccolo Machiavelli (Photo credit: Robert Scarth)
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
Salvador (BA) – O Cantor Stevie Wonder fala na abertura da 2ª Conferência de Intelectuais da África e da Diáspora em Salvador. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person. ”
—Stevie Wonder.
