Quotes About Mass Communication

#1. Mass communication
wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued
presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. (p. 73)

Rollo May

#2. I have crabs!
I didn't want to tell you, but since we had sex,
it's only a matter of time before those critters get you too.
Fuck, I've missed you.

Aly Martinez

#3. To be honest, all I wanted to do, all I ever, ever wanted to do - I just wanted to perform.

James Corden

#4. Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.

Clay Shirky

#5. Allow your pain to cleanse you and burn away what needs to die.

Bryant McGill

#6. Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

Walt Disney Company

#7. Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.

John Warnock

#8. Mass communication can aid in personal evangelism and the development of Christians, but it cannot be a substitute for the world seeing the truth lived through us.

Erwin W. Lutzer

#9. No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering substance more benign.

James Norwood Pratt

#10. I think a little bit of competition is always good.

Logan Henderson

#11. The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

Marya Mannes

#12. Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.

Scott McCloud

#13. We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. Discard that old notion, that "the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing". Good people can't do nothing.

Jenna Brooks

#15. When will I be home? I don't know.
In the mountains, in the rainy night,
The Autumn lake is flooded.
Someday we will be back together again.
We will sit in the candlelight by the West window.
And I will tell you how I remembered you
Tonight on the stormy mountain.

Li Shang-yin

#16. Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.

Allen Ginsberg

#17. Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry.

David Riesman

#18. Don't write love poems when you're in love. Write them when you're not in love.

Richard Hugo

#19. Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.

Alan Kay

#20. Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

Walt Disney Company

#21. Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will make a "good program": ethic equals showbiz.

Frederic Raphael

#22. Loving difficult people will refine us. Perhaps only in heaven will our love be so perfected that we can actually like these people, too. St. Augustine spoke of a man who, on earth, had chronic gas problems; in heaven, his flatulence became perfect music.

Scott Hahn

#23. The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial.

Sara Sheridan

#24. I have come to the conclusion that just as the Japanese live to work, Asians live to eat.

Anastacia Oaikhena

#25. Advertising is in essence simply a means of communication through mass media which is available to anyone who can pay for it. It is, in this sense, rather like electricity, which can be used to work a refrigerator or a dentist's drill.

John Treasure

#26. I never even wanted to be an actress. I studied mass communication and wanted to study law in Newcastle, for which I even got a scholarship. But by then, I had started modelling. So, I took a year off to decide what to do. But once you are used to working, it's difficult to get back to studies.

Esha Gupta

#27. Reagan's easy slippage between movies and reality is synechdochic for a political culture increasingly impervious to distinctions between fiction and history.

Michael Rogin

#28. Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?

Tariq Ramadan

#29. I think that all money can do is to get your message out. Unfortunately, we live in a world where you have to use mass media to communicate with the people, and it just costs an awful lot of money.

Michael Bloomberg

#30. When all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
[as quoted by Alfred E Neuman]

Lou Holtz

#31. You can't say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.

Richard Feynman

#32. I really think that music itself, being one of the greatest possible vehicles for mass communication, should be probed to its extremes, to see how effective it can actually become, which is one of the reasons why I became also interested in presenting political points of view.

Ruben Blades

#33. People are self-absorbed. I think that the mass ability of communication now probably allows individuals to meet more self-absorbed individuals. It has certainly changed the way that people meet.

Nicholas Sparks

#34. Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

Eugenio Montale

#35. I think regionalism was a little easier before mass communication was made possible. This is not to say that regionalism doesn't exist anymore. I think it does.

Jimenez Lai

#36. You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.

Andre Malraux

#37. Since no one is always right, always being right is really a role model for his children feeling inadequate.

Warren Farrell

#38. Your retirement identity is of a successful person who creatively and efficiently manages your money and lifestyle to adapt to the ever changing economic and personal conditions of our time.

Lee Johnson

#39. It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

Marcus Tullius Cicero