Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

I avoid all the language and nudity and violence and everything. I have enough of that at home.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

There is no dignity in television.

If we want parents to be discerning about what children are watching then we need to put stuff in there for them to watch, too.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.

We need to take on Hollywood. They are poisoning the minds of our kids.

We have pleaded to the entertainment industry to raise their standards and protect our children.

What we watch on television, we approve.

I saw this new thing called television, and I saw people throwing pies in each other's faces, and I thought, 'This could be a wonderful tool for education! Why is it being used this way?' So I said to my parents, 'You know, I don't think I'll go into seminary right away. I think I'll go into television.'

We know television should educate and inform, and I believe it should entertain.

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

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

I don't look at certain things on TV anymore. I don't listen to certain music anymore. I make sure my kids don't listen to it. It's funny because back in the days I could look at comedy shows and all kind of stuff and you didn't even realize how much cursing it had in it.

I don't like any nastiness on tv unless it's coming from me.

The press ... is but the servant of human intellect and its ministry is for good or evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill that grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread.

We have to ask people who produce things [entertainment] to consider their consequence—especially with children.

The state must not ... let itself be confused by the drivel about so-called "freedom of the press," ... it must make sure of this instrument of popular education, and place it in the service of the state.

Television is the medium through which society communicates its democratic values.

Radio and films, and now television, open for us a window onto everything that goes on throughout the world: the events—and the ideas too—of all humanity invade our homes day after day

No American parent should be forced to compete with popular culture to raise his children.

The Press has not only a great influence over our manners and morals, but contributes largely to our pleasures.

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen, and the far spread magazine, rules the country.

Everyone is an expert on T.V., just as he is on education; everyone has some education and a T.V. set.

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.