George Gerbner quotes

“Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more susceptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures. ... They may accept and even welcome repression if it promises to relieve their insecurities.”
-- George Gerbner

Source : Nancy Signorielli, George Gerbner (1988). “Violence and Terror in the Mass Media: An Annotated Bibliography”, p.21, Greenwood Publishing Group

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“The product is the delivery of the largest number of people at the least cost.”
-- George Gerbner

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“If you can write a nation's stories, you needn't worry about who makes its laws. Today, television tells most of the stories to most of the people most of the time.”
-- George Gerbner

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“You know, who tells the stories of a culture really governs human behavior. It used to be the parent, the school, the church, the community. Now it's a handful of global conglomerates that have nothing to tell, but a great deal to sell.”
-- George Gerbner

Source : "George Gerbner, 86; Educator Researched the Influence of TV Viewing on Perceptions" by Myrna Oliver, articles.latimes.com. December 29, 2005.

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“On prime time entertainment television, scientists are most at risk. Ten percent of scientists featured in prime-time entertainment programming get killed, and five percent kill someone. No other occupational group is more likely to kill or be killed.”
-- George Gerbner

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“If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they got when they went round crying for a hero.”

“Have a determination that is strong enough to move walls.”

“I must tell you, I haven't done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It's a hard show to do, but I think it's going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it's a pretty strong show.”

“Patience will benefit you in every hour, every time and every opportunity. It helps you to overcome your opponent, howsoever strong he may be. It will help you in times of distress and hardships, in battles and in war and peace.”

Source : Abd al-Karim Qasim's historical extempore speech at the Reserve Officers' College, 1959.

“We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.”

“The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.”

“There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.”

“One day people will touch and talk perhaps easily, and loving be natural as breathing and warm as sunlight, and people will untie themselves, as string is unknotted, unfold and yawn and stretch and spread their fingers, unfurl, uncurl like seaweed returned to the sea, and work will be simple and swift as a seagull flying, and play will be casual and quiet as a seagull settling, and the clocks will stop, and no one will wonder or care or notice, and people will smile without reason, even in winter, even in the rain.”

Source : A. S. J. Tessimond (2011). “Not Love Perhaps: Selected Poems”, p.78, Faber & Faber

“It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.”

“Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.”

Source : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.43, Courier Corporation