M Quotes
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“Medeniyet dediğin nedir ki?.. İnsanın kafasını vahşet tombrukta keserdi; medeniyet giyotinde biçiyor. Zulüm eskiden el işiydi; şimdi makine işi!.. Şu yirminci yüzyılın maskaralığına bak bir kere!.. Dünya üç mideli hayvana döndü: Yer tankla, gök tayyareyle, deniz zırhlıyla adam öldürüyor.”
Source: Üç İstanbul
“Medeniyet sevgiden doğar,
Nefretten doğar orman.
Yaşamak istiyorsan nefretsiz yaşa,
Hepimiz aşkı arıyoruz, hepimiz göçmen.”
Source: Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü
“Medeniyet zihinden doğar,
Maymuniyet zihinden doğar.
Bütün sorunlar zihinden doğar,
Cevaplar da zihinden doğar.”
Source: Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations
“Medeniyet çirkin olmak zorunda değildir; medeniyet medeni olabilir! Ve medeni bir medeniyet yaratmanın tek yolu çevre dostu bir medeniyet yaratmaktır!”
“Medeniyetler şimdiye kadar küçük bir fikir aristokrasisi tarafından meydana getirilmiş ve idare olunmuştur. Asla kitleler tarafından değil. Kalabalıklar yalnız yıkıcı kuvvete sahiptirler.”
Source: The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
“Medgar Evers was assassinated in his driveway retuning from an NAACP meeting in downtown Jackson. And then you go back there years later, and the blood is still on the driveway. They cannot wash it away.”
“Media access to us is more regulated than in golf.”
“Media are focused on comments Michael Jordan made about race which appear in my book. He made those comments years ago, talking of his youth”
“Media are means of extending and enlarging our organic sense lives into our environment.”
“Media bias has been a favorite theme of the Right for decades, of course.”
“Media bias in editorials and columns is one thing. Media fraud in reporting 'facts' in news stories is something else. ...The issue is not what various journalists or news organizations' editorial views are. The issue is the transformation of news reporting into ideological spin, along with self-serving taboos and outright fraud.”
“Media bias is one thing. Rejection of reality is another”
“Media censorship is a prohibition of words and pictures. The war on drugs is a complete failure, and so is the American war on words. When you forbid a word, you give it power. Self-proclaimed rebels will use words like shit or fuck, simply to shock and sound cool.”
Source: Sex and Crime: Oliver's Strange Journey
“Media companies, under the guise of piracy, are asking congress to give them more control over fair use. Hollywood wants to control innovation.”
“Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.”
“Media coverage of the legislative fights is overwhelmingly negative for agriculture interests. The impression left among consumers is that the proponents had something to hide.”
“Media does not get everything they want all the time. The Democrats certainly don't. They don't win every election, and they don't win every battle.”
“Media economics now are so dependent on people saying controversial things and an entire mini-news cycle springing up around this thing that that person said. It really behooves people in the public eye to know what's in the zeitgeist and to have opinions on it. It becomes a thing of is this genuine, or is this just a way for celebrities to keep themselves relevant in a time when this is obviously a hot topic?”
“Media has changed dramatically, as you and I know. We're in a world now where you're rewarded for being outrageous. Punditry has replaced reporting as the gold standard of journalism.”
“Media hosts just talk about Golda Meir and Margaret Thatcher and again miss the point. I was talking about AMERICAN culture, ladies and gentlemen. As I pointed out, if Margaret Thatcher or Golda Meir, by the way, she didn't care, and Margaret Thatcher didn't care how she look like. If Margaret Thatcher were running for president today, as she was when she was the Iron Lady, we wouldn't have her mom doing television commercials telling us how wonderful she was when she was a kid and how nice she is.”
“Media is a big problem around the world, it's powerful and can abuse its power.”
“Media is an assemblage of tools with which to expand an audience's conception of what "the world" is to such and extent that their own lives and capabilities seem utterly insignificant; a means of psychological warfare by which people are overloaded with information and desensitized to their own and others' suffering; the sum of all means by which human beings reduce the infinite complexity of reality to a dead-end maze of abstractions.”
Source: Contradictionary
“Media is everything, and when you live in Los Angeles and you live in New York, it's almost impossible to run into a conservative point of view because the conservatives that exist in Hollywood, where much of the media's done, and the conservatives that live in New York where a lot of the media's done are fearful of even expressing their conservative point of view.”
“Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.”
“Media is Munchausen by proxy.”
“Media is the subset of social media.”
Source: We have our difference in common 2.
“Media is very different from financial services. People are very fickle and very vocal. They believe that things should be one way and not the other. It's still very rewarding to build products for huge audiences. It feels like you're making an impact.”
“Media K Solutions delivers advanced audio and video integration designed to enhance how organizations communicate and collaborate. Their expertise spans corporate offices, classrooms, and entertainment venues, ensuring every system is tailored to the specific needs of the environment.
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“Media: Keep the adult public attention diverted away from the real social issues, and captivated by matters of no real importance.
Schools: Keep the young public ignorant of real mathematics, real economics, real law, and REAL HISTORY [WC emphasis].
Entertainment: Keep the public entertainment below a sixth-grade level.
Work: Keep the public busy, busy, busy, with no time to think; back on the farm with the other animals.”
Source: Behold a Pale Horse
“Media kekinian. Merekah tanpa batas, bahkan tak ada yang berani memprotes jika media memutarbalikkan fakta. Media membuat muslihat paling menipu daya, yang buruk menjadi begitu mulia, dan yang begitu mulia menjadi buruk rupa. Luar biasa kuatnya opini yang dibentuk media sehingga dapat memengaruhi perekonomian, perpolitikan, sosial, dan budaya sebuah bangsa. (44)”
Source: Bulan Terbelah di Langit Amerika
“Media literacy is not just important, it's absolutely critical. It's going to make the difference between whether kids are a tool of the mass media or whether the mass media is a tool for kids to use.”
“Media manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that we are getting all the information we want. That misconception prevents people from even looking for the truth.”
“Media markets, like all markets, are profoundly nihilistic. Clicks, likes and shares are a multi-denominational currency. As long as they accumulate, as long as visibility (and revenue) is gained, it does not matter why. In other words, the media using sexual violence as clickbait does not imply support for feminist goals.”
Source: Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism
“Media members and politicians were largely affluent and privileged and out of touch with what was happening on the ground in other parts of the country.”
Source: The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis
“Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite the contrary, they have babies at such a young age precisely because they are poor--because they do not have the opportunity to acquire an education, because meaningful, well-paying jobs and creative forms of recreation are not accessible to them ... because safe, effective forms of contraception are not available to them.”
Source: Women, Culture & Politics
“Media organizations are global. They may be based in the U.S., but they're essentially global.”
“Media over here, coming to ya like a world premiere. Trench coat and my underwear, let's go with this freak show.”
“Media people should have long noses like an elephant to smell out politicians, mayors, prime ministers and businessmen. We need to know the reality, the good and the bad, not just the appearance.”
“Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.”
“Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament.”
“Media reporters have pointed out that the paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's essay in the April 22nd issue of The New Yorker. They are right. I made a terrible mistake. It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault. I apologize unreservedly to her, to my editors at Time, and to my readers.”
“Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.”
“Media runs the world, and it all changed, I think, when the debate between Kennedy and Nixon happened, and first of all we saw them on television, and that changed everything.”
“Media’s all about the gospel of the lone wolf, but the truth is we’re all just sheep.”
Source: Nothing But Blackened Teeth
“media saturation is probably very destructive to art. New movements get overexposed and exhausted before they have a chance to grow, and they turn to ashes in a short time. Some degree of time and obscurity is often very necessary to artists.”
“Media scrutiny is a great trademark of the American political arena.”
“Media seem to get off easy to stuff the "sheeple" with canned and standardized messages that they can digest at ease in their comfort zone, without leaving any bitter aftertaste. ("Don't leave! Stay with us!")”
“Media sosial mana pun suatu hari bakalan hilang, tapi manusia selalu butuh bertemu, saling bicara dari hati ke hati.”
Source: Playing Victim
“Media turned against Israel was a gradual process. And it has gotten worse over the years. I think the main development was the 1982 Lebanon War.”
“Media used to be one way. Everyone else in the world just had to listen. Now the internet is allowing what used to be a monologue to become a dialogue. I think that's healthy.”