“Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.” BookAgeValuesReadingDignityEsteemChiefsStamps Author:J. Paul Getty
“Age doesn't matter, unless you are cheese.” MatterAgeTeacherTeachingRetirementCheeseLifeboats Author:J. Paul Getty
“...Americans...automatically equate dissension with disloyalty. They view any criticism of our existing social, economic, and political forms, as sedition and subversion. ...(" The growing reluctance of Americans to criticize, and their increasing tendency to condemn those who, in ever dwindling numbers, will still voice dissent") is disturbing, deplorable, and truly dangerous.” StillsAgeFormPoliticalSocialVoiceDarkViewsNumbersGrowingEconomicDangerousCriticismMedicalTendenciesCriticizeDisturbingDissentDark AgesReluctanceSubversionDisloyaltyDissension Author:J. Paul Getty
“Today's dissenters mainly focus their attention and expend their energies on the most inconsequential of trivia. ...Allegedly serious intellectuals quibble endlessly over such ridiculous trivialities...In the meantime, the public is lulled into a perilous somnolence, spoon-fed pap, and palpable untruths, many of which are turned out by special-interest and pressure groups and well organized propaganda machines.” WellsAgeTodayEnergyInterestDarkAttentionFocusGroupsSpecialSeriousMachinesPressureMedicalRidiculousPropagandaOrganizedFedsDark AgesSpoonsSpecial InterestsUntruthInconsequentialTrivialityTriviaPressure Groups Author:J. Paul Getty
“Some of our newspapers and magazines are more concerned with the welfare of their advertisers than they are with the dissemination of news and the discussion of matters of lasting importance. ...Radio, television, motion pictures, popular books - all contribute...to...the stifling of dissent on all but the most banal levels. ...a renunciation of the most basic and precious of democratic principles.” BookMatterAgeDarkLevelsPrinciplesTelevisionNewsConcernedImportanceDemocraticRadioMedicalNewspapersMagazinesDiscussionWelfareLastingDissentDark AgesRenunciationMotion PicturesAdvertisersStiflingDisseminationPopular Book Author:J. Paul Getty
