Edward Robb Ellis Quotes

all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war

We are living in a demented world. And we know it. It would not come as a surprise to anyone if tomorrow the madness gave way to afrenzy which would leave our poor Europe in a state of distracted stupor, with engines still turning and flags streaming in the breeze, but with the spirit gone.

We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.

The mediated world has approached us from a lot of different directions and we have freely chosen our automobiles and our skyscrapers and our televisions and our telephones and our computers because they have given us power and freedom. Now we are beginning to notice there's a price to pay for them. It's all interconnected, the good stuff and the bad stuff comes together.

Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

Never follow a follower who is following someone who has fallen. Its why the whole world is falling apart.

Information is the religion of the modern world.

I'm a little nuts. I'm a lot nuts. All I know is that in the midst of the madness of this world it's my therapy. The music touches my heartstrings.

The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.

I think that we live in a world - and this is something which living in Pakistan, perhaps, has taught me - and, you know, we live in a world where there is a constant feed from social media, the news, etc., of things that can scare us. And we become so anxious because human beings are meant - are designed to be sensitized to dangerous stuff.

Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.

Not for the first time Richard reflected that this age's vaunted 'communications industry' had chiefly provided people and nations with the means of frightening to death and simultaneously boring to extinction themselves and each other.

Deux fous gagnent toujours, mais trois fous, non!

When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.

We live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless against what he knows he is going to read in tomorrow's newspaper.

It was inevitable that in the proliferation of media and media channels and the natural debasing of authority that comes when you make an expert of someone who knows a few things and can be on television and you put the word "expert" underneath them, that is to say me, then eventually the very concept of expertise itself would become meaningless.

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

Television leaves no external scars.

The public read newspapers, see television, they watch, they don't know if it's true or false because they're not involved.

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

If there were only one person in the world, is there any way he could be insane?

Television will enormously enlarge the eye's range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.

The preferred world can be seen any evening on television in the succession of programs where the good always wins

We live in a world where virtually everybody expects there's going to be some reasonable therapy for virtually any situation.

In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane