information deprivation Quotes

Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom.

I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result. And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed.

How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn't saved, isn't taught?

A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race.

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

But I do not remember ever having seen a newspaper in the house; and, most certainly, that privation did not render us less industrious, happy, or free.

So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection.

People are more easily manipulated when they don't have information. If you ensure that kids grow up without basic reading skills, math skills, and so forth, then you ensure that they can't act effectively.