Postman Technopoly Quotes

#1. I can't write to please everyone, but someone, somewhere will be touched if I put my heart into it.

Sara Winters

#2. A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.

Irving Babbitt

#3. A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

Thomas Mann

#4. In the American Technopoly, public opinion is a yes or no answer to an unexamined question.

Neil Postman

#5. What is clear is that, to date, computer technology has served to strengthen Technopoly's hold, to make people believe that technological innovation is synonymous with human progress.

Neil Postman

#6. Fassbender is fearless; he's a fearless actor.

Ben Mendelsohn

#7. The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.

Abraham Lincoln

#8. I do like a healthy dose of adrenalin, but my character is more rounded. I am not timid; I like excitement.

John Caudwell

#9. Abetted by a form of education that in itself has been emptied of any coherent world-view, Technopoly deprives us of the social, political, historical, metaphysical, logical, or spiritual bases for knowing what is beyond belief.

Neil Postman

#10. Just as making an omelette & breaking eggs you can't make a horror film without breaking a few heads!

Kensington Gore

#11. Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.

Hermann Von Helmholtz

#12. Technopoly is a state of culture. It is also a state of mind. It consists in the deification of technology, which means that the culture seeks its authorization in technology, finds its satisfactions in technology, and takes its orders from technology.

Neil Postman

#13. Technopoly eliminates alternatives to itself in precisely the way that Aldous Huxley outlined in Brave New World. It does not make them illegal. It does not make them immoral. It does not even make them unpopular. It makes them invisible, and therefore irrelevant.

Neil Postman

#14. Religion is a non-alcoholic man's alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man's religion.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#15. Peace is possible, and it will take a miracle.

Robyn Short

#16. Life is a sacred shared-life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. Have good associates or don't associate at all. Be careful in the selection of your friends. If in the presence of certain persons you are lifted to nobler heights, you are in good company. But if your friends or associates encourage base thoughts, then you had best leave them.

Ezra Taft Benson

#18. Art is like therapy; what comes up is what comes up. It may be dark, but that's what comes up. You may want to keep some of it in a drawer but never judge it.

Nick Bantock

#19. Our true appearance is our mind's appearance; whatever our mind's visage is, that is our real visage! Thus, whenever you meet a person, concentrate on his mind to see his real look, try to understand his mind because his mind is his real face!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#20. Stress and anxiety are the products of fear and fear is not having faith.

Elissa Goodman