Quotes About Communication

Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and uses them for a thousand different ends.

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.

Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and receive less.

Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don't produce them. We need to produce, not consume, media.

Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies.

When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.

If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

How utterly are one's best thoughts invaded by this going out in society.

When we change the way we communicate, we change society.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

We're a free society; we've got television. We have radio. We have newspapers. We have the videocassette, which is coming into play. These are new freedoms.

All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication is the cement of society.

There ain't no grammatical errors in a non-literate society.

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society

how can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.

It might be said that society speaks through the clothing it wears. Through its clothing it reveals its secret aspirations and uses it, at least in part, to build or destroy its future.

I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.

It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.

Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows

Literature is the expression of society.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.