Billy Graham Quotes

Sometimes you wonder if television is really affecting the culture.

I think that every time you bring a subject into the mainstream landscape of television, it can have a huge impact. Television is such an influential medium.

TV's a pretty powerful thing.

Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A whole generation of Americans, maybe two, has grown up looking at the world through a lens.

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

Television changes you. Therefore it is important what you watch and when you watch.

I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance of the general peace or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television — of that I am quite sure.

I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.

TV has always been a very strong and powerful medium for women.

You see, the power of television cannot be underestimated.

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment.

TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.

Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.

I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing.

In the past, modeling influences were largely confined to the styles of behavior and social practices in one's immediate community. The advent of television vastly expanded the range of models to which members of society are exposed day in and day out.

Television really has been responsible for everything that I've done successfully.

I definitely feel that films and TV shows can bring about social change.