It is not enough to show people how to live better; there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.

The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society.

television and radio violence was considered by most experts of minimal importance as a contributory cause of youthful killing. ... there were always enough experts to assure the public that crime and violence had nothing to do with crime and violence.

What is asserted by a man is an opinion; what is asserted by a woman is opinionated. A woman with ideas and the ability to express them is something of a social embarrassment, like an unhousebroken pet.

To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.