Neil Postman Quotes

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

The real energy occurs in each connection between two people, which can bring about exponential returns.

The care and concern of one human being for another is a peculiar 'commodity.' It can't be stockpiled. It becomes degraded through trade. It isn't delivered by machines. Its quality rests entirely on the attention paid by one person to another. Even to speak of reducing the time involved is to misunderstand its value.

I am a member of the human race. There's a certain irony about the cyberworld. You don't know who is talking to you, if it's a machine, so I tend to try to reach out to those fellow humans.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

Digital technology is both arousing and distancing. We don't look at the users on the other side as people. They aren't - they're just usernames, Facebook photos and Twitter handles.

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!

I'm all for holding each other accountable, but it feels as if we're hurling toward a society of finger-pointers, because we don't hold ourselves accountable for anything.

I have always believed that chemistry can't be created between two people. You either have it or you don't. The script can only enhance it.

I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them.

As human beings, what makes us able to empathize with people is a connection that is not necessarily understood mentally.

The complicated, ambiguous milieu of human contact is being replaced with simple, scalable equations. We maintain thousands more friends than any human being in history, but at the cost of complexity and depth. Every minute spent online is a minute of face-to-face time lost.

In the end, perhaps it will be the true romantics, not the nerds, who choose to flee from a world of impersonal, digitized relationships and into the arms of simulacrums with manners imported from simpler times.

My life has told me that I do owe another human being. I owe him part of my life. That's why I'm in politics.

There's a difference between good chemistry and a bond. Chemistry is something you have with somebody you meet - or you don't. It's an intangible. It may be superficial. It's much harder to put your finger on than a bond.

The Internet is especially adept at compressing humanity and making it easy to forget there are people behind tweets, posts, and memes.

I feel like personally, it's on everybody to hold each other accountable.

I find inspiration in each and every person that I cross paths with. Every human being I interact with offers me a significant insight on some aspect of life.

Perhaps what makes friendship and love exciting is the continuing discovery of another personality.

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

Because every single one of us has something to say to the others, something that deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others

Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.

Relationships are two people; everyone is accountable. A lot goes into a relationship coming together, and a lot goes into a relationship falling apart. Even if it's 98 percent the other person's fault, it's 2 percent yours.... You can only clean up your side of the street.

There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.