Quotes About Communication

I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.

As a human being, member of society, you must clearly state your mind. It's a responsibility. It is the way you identify yourself otherwise you don't know who you are and why you are here.

TV has had a stronger impact on our society than any single invention since the automobile. It has put the dead hand on conversation.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library

Poets sing our human music for us.

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

The Right of all members of society to form their own beliefs and communicate them freely to others must be regarded as an essential principle of a democratically organized society.

If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times.

In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.

Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.

...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another.

And please don't call me that." I didn't call you 'that', I called you George Washington.

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending non-corrupt communication.

Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.

Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

The undoubted sign of a society well under control or in decline is that language has ceased to be a means of communication and has become instead a shield for those who master it.

It is difficult to express the reality of Ibo society in classical English.

The nature and extent of profanity and vulgarity in our society is a measure of its deterioration.

because everybody lies. It's part of living in society .

Silence is what causes most of humanity's problems

Our society is just less open to platitudes, more open to stories.