Cornel West Quotes

Radio enables people to hear all evil, television enables them to see all evil, and the jet plane enables them to go off and do all evil.

Today the greatest evil—and therefore the most immediate—is the press.

I think that the dehumanization of another person can happen in the matter of an instant.

Whatever is shown in a TV show is a reflection of society.

Television can only destroy.

Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.

Religion is the root of quite a lot of evil.

How many evils have flowed from religion.

The media is something that affects a lot of people, so you're constantly trying to strike a balance between respecting something and not caring about it.

Newspapers necessarilyand inevitably reflect, and therefore, in greater or lesser measure, intensify, the defective organization of public opinion.

The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g. , some of them use their strength against others. These evils are more numerous than those of the first kind... they likewise originate in ourselves, though the sufferer himself cannot avert them.

Think about every time you've seen someone being objectified, abused, enslaved. We see it constantly on the TV, in magazines, on the Internet. We've become numb, so we do nothing. The accumulation of passivity might make reading about that exploitation uncomfortable. And sometimes when I'm writing, I think of it like this: "People seem to like garbage, so here is what garbage smells like..."

One time I was on the road with clients with an investment bank, and they thought it would be fun to go to a strip club. It was the most barren thing I've ever seen - this poor woman had nothing on and they were throwing quarters at her.

She’s a commodity in a sea of broken girls.

Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.

Of course the media loves stuff like that so they find this one Rockette. It's like you can have 10,000 people at a rally for [Donald] Trump and 200 people outside, and the 200 people outside make the news.

I get all these screenplays that start 'Tawnya is in the shower. The water streams down her naked, perky breasts'. I don't think this is happening to Natalie Portman.

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

It's crazy when you see very little reflection between what's played on the radio and what people are talking about in the streets. It lets you know how far off we are from a real movement.

The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

Television leaves no external scars.

It’s no more dangerous to society than a radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds.