Paul Virilio Quotes

Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

Television has been the single greatest shaper of emptiness.

The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television.

Nothing is really real unless it “happens” on television…Television has brought an inversion of our consciousness. When we take our eyes off the tube, we see things that are not quite authentic – or rather, which gain authenticity only by their resemblance to how things happen on television

The Press has not only a great influence over our manners and morals, but contributes largely to our pleasures.

TV is the most powerful medium, which has taken me right into the homes of so many people.

You see, the power of television cannot be underestimated.

Television has an unparalleled reach.

I think I got my education as a young boy from things I saw on TV.

The entertainment industry as a whole has given more thought to the pollution of rivers than it has to the pollution of minds.

Television leaves no external scars.

Radio and films, and now television, open for us a window onto everything that goes on throughout the world: the events—and the ideas too—of all humanity invade our homes day after day

The culprit has been TV. It creates the impression that we are all young, we are all healthy and we are all beautiful.

Politicians used to be able to change the subject. With television they cannot do that any more.

Without television, Richard Nixon would not have a chance. He would not have a prayer of being elected because the press would not let him get through to the people.

First radio, then television, have assaulted and overturned the privacy of the home, the real American privacy, which permitted the development of a higher and more independent life within democratic society. Parents can no longer control the atmosphere of the home and have lost even the will to do so.

I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance of the general peace or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television — of that I am quite sure.

I saw this new thing called television, and I saw people throwing pies in each other's faces, and I thought, 'This could be a wonderful tool for education! Why is it being used this way?' So I said to my parents, 'You know, I don't think I'll go into seminary right away. I think I'll go into television.'

Television is hypnotic, and it hides among the furniture of your living room. It doesn't reveal itself, but it distorts everything.

Television really has been responsible for everything that I've done successfully.

That's the power of television. You come into people's homes every week, and that creates a familiarity and a false sense of intimacy.

I love the mall, and I love Howard Stern and Oprah.

I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.

If you could place blame on entertainment for all the crimes people commit, you'd be in court all the livelong day.