Best Television Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship.”

“I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a theory of anticommunication, featuring a type of discourse that abandons logic, reason, sequence and rules of contradiction. In aesthetics, I believe the name given to this theory is Dadaism; in philosophy, nihilism; in psychiatry, schizophrenia. In the parlance of the theater, it is known as vaudeville.”

“If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give—the ability to influence.”

“Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man's nirvana. And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and says you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind. He probably hasn't got the price of a television set.”

“Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?”

“Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.”

“People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.”

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,”

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”