Alice Walker Quotes

Even if every program were educational and every advertisement bore the seal of approval of the American Dental Association, we would still have a critical problem. It's not just the programs but the act of watching television hour after hour after hour that's destructive.

For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.

Television is simply automated daydreaming.

I don't even own a TV because I think it's the devil.

Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.

What bothers me about TV is that it tends to take our minds off our minds.

Switch off reality TV! I've only ever been able watch about 30 seconds of it.

Our culture loves movies and TV, which is wonderful, but there's something a little bit passive sometimes about watching, because you're looking at other people's imagination at work.

TV is a wasteland. It's a bunch of news actors that read off a prompter.

Sometimes, I hate-watch television.

People will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate - because, unfortunately, they've been programmed to do that.

For most people, there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens on television, we have every right to find it fascinating, whatever it is.

I just sit ther and do what I vowed I would never do - talk back to the television.

All of television's appalling, but this is hardly a new statement.

There is a mass of people, we might as well admit, who if they weren't watching television, would be doing absolutely nothing else.

For perhaps most Americans, TV is an apppliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on - there's always something to watch.

They call television a medium because nothing's well done.

One can watch hours and hours of TV without actually losing interest, but, as with Chinese food, one is rarely left with much residue of nourishment.

If you've never watched people watch television, I don't recommend it. It's not an exciting thing to do.

I don't approve of people who watch television, but I am one of them.

Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.

Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.

So many of us have our asses watching stupid reality shows, desensitizing our brains. Like, "Wow, isn't that dumb, but I'm so entertained right now! That's the stupidest thing I've seen in my life - give me more of it!" You know what I'm talking about. I turn on the television and I'm like, "This is so bad, but I cannot get my fucking eyes off of it." It's not good.

You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.

Yes, for most people nowadays television is their only contact with the world beyond their work.