Mass Communication Quotes:

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

- Walt Disney

topic: Communication, Moving Forward, Language, Mass Communication, Language And Communication

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

- Marshall McLuhan

source: Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore (1967). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Gingko Pr Inc

topic: Communication, Men, Talking, Mass Communication

Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.

- Joseph Pulitzer

topic: Appreciation, Business, Communication, Mass Communication, Keep It Simple

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

- Marya Mannes

source: Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

topic: Communication, People, Political, Mass Communication

Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.

- John Warnock

topic: Communication, Thinking, People, Mass Communication, Empathetic

It is a curious thing that the more the world shrinks because of electronic communications, the more limitless becomes the province of the storytelling entertainer.

- Walt Disney

topic: Communication, World, Limitless, Mass Communication, Animator

Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will make a "good program": ethic equals showbiz.

- Frederic Raphael

topic: Communication, Ethics, Arguing, Mass Communication, Showbiz

The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.

- Shimon Peres

topic: Communication, Space, Internet, Mass Communication

Mass communication can aid in personal evangelism and the development of Christians, but it cannot be a substitute for the world seeing the truth lived through us.

- Erwin W. Lutzer

source: Erwin W. Lutzer (1985). “How In This World Can I Be Holy?”, p.46, Moody Publishers

topic: Christian, Communication, Development, Mass Communication, Seeing The Truth

Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

- Eugenio Montale

topic: Communication, Reflection, Solitude, Mass Communication

Before Gutenberg, there was this really very strong oral storytelling culture where being able to relay stories from person to person was sufficient. And then, with the introduction of printing and mass communication, suddenly somebody had a lot of authority invested in the idea of a single canonical expression of a document or a piece of communication.

- Khoi Vinh

source: Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.

topic: Strong, Communication, Expression, Mass Communication, Gutenberg

If I ever really felt depressed, I would just start putting on all my old records that I played as a kid, because the whole thing that really lifted me then still lifted me during those other times. It was good medicine for me, and it still does that for me when I put something on. Isn't it wonderful that we've got all that good medicine? I think it's got to be all part of our DNA, this mass communication through music. That's what it is. It's got to be, hasn't it? Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn't let me down.

- Jimmy Page

topic: Communication, Kids, Thinking, Mass Communication, Old Records

Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.

- Alan Kay

topic: Communication, Television, Warning, Mass Communication

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go to form of communication.

- Frank Ocean

topic: Communication, Writing, Form, Mass Communication

Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.

- Allen Ginsberg

source: Allen Ginsberg (2015). “The Essential Ginsberg”, p.178, Penguin UK

topic: Life, Wisdom, Real, Mass Communication

In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies - the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Communication, Men, Two, Mass Communication, Brave New World Consumerism

I really love newspapers. They are disposable. They are recyclable. They fall apart so easily. They are not like iPads or Kindles that can't be disposed of and end up on some third-world shore. And I love the heritage of them, the whole history of mass communication. Newspapers changed the world from being a really class based, feudal system to people being able to cheaply get information that informed them.

- Stanley Donwood

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Fall, Communication, Class, Mass Communication, Disposable

If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture to their common denominator -- the commodity form. The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value, counts.

- Herbert Marcuse

source: Herbert Marcuse (2012). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.57, Beacon Press

topic: Art, Philosophy, Communication, Mass Communication, Salesmanship

Advertising and the free society are closely connected. Advertising helps to make a free society remain so by increasing competition, and by helping to maintain the freedom of the mass media themselves. The free society is one where advertising and advertising agencies are likely to be in considerable demand, though it is true that even in a totally centralist society there would still be a need for organisations and people to have access to mass communication media.

- John Treasure

topic: Business, Communication, Media, Mass Communication

Mass communication--wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued--presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. (p. 73)

- Rollo May

topic: Country, Communication, Views, Mass Communication

As one might expect in a society with mass communications and mass markets, the pseudo-ethic says that whatever is popular, is right. Where the traditional ethic derives its sanction from the superiority of a few, the pseudo-ethic derives its sanction from the inferiority of a great many. The pseudo-ethic is keyed, not to the spiritually gifted, but to the spiritually ungifted.

- Margaret Halsey

source: Margaret Halsey (1964). “The Corrupted Giant: A Speculation on American Politics and Morals”

topic: Communication, Culture, Inferiority, Mass Communication, Popular Culture

This Power Elite directly employs several millions of the country´s working force in its factories, offices and stores, controls many millions more by lending them the money to buy its products, and, through its ownership of the media of mass communication, influences the thoughts, the feelings and the actions of virtually everybody. To parody the words of W. Churchill, never have so many been manipulated so much by few.

- Aldous Huxley

source: Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

topic: Country, Communication, Media, Mass Communication

Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.

- Scott McCloud

topic: Communication, Voice, Today, Mass Communication

I think that mass communications as well as mass travel have made the whole world available to us in ways that they haven't been. As with any kind of freedom, the more of it that one has the greater the need for limit and restraint. But I think that it's a nice challenge to be saddled with.

- Pico Iyer

source: Source: scottlondon.com

topic: Nice, Communication, Thinking, Mass Communication

I think regionalism was a little easier before mass communication was made possible. This is not to say that regionalism doesn't exist anymore. I think it does.

- Jimenez Lai

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Communication, Thinking, Littles, Mass Communication, Regionalism

(Howard Dean) is proving that the Internet is a better, cheaper, and faster way to raise money than the old glad-handing of special interests and fat cat donors. He's also about to demonstrate that the Internet is a better place to spend campaign dollars than are TV stations and media time buys. The fact that Internet communications is free makes one-on-one retail politics more effective, more rapid, and less costly than mass communication.

- Dick Morris

topic: Communication, Media, Special, Mass Communication

I never even wanted to be an actress. I studied mass communication and wanted to study law in Newcastle, for which I even got a scholarship. But by then, I had started modelling. So, I took a year off to decide what to do. But once you are used to working, it's difficult to get back to studies.

- Esha Gupta

topic: Communication, Years, Law, Mass Communication, Newcastle

This...Godless society operates in an extremely efficient manner at least in its higher levels of leadership...It follows a perfectly mapped out strategy. It holds almost complete sway in international organizations, in financial circles, in the field of mass communications; press, cinema, radio and television.

- Pedro Arrupe

topic: Communication, Circles, Organization, Mass Communication, Higher Level

The artist may rightly venture the opinion that he does not convey ideas, does not preach, nor does he intend to convert people by using mass communication techniques... Better than handing out all kinds of wise advice, he could show life itself; he could awake forces lying dormant in everybody. He could launch an invitation to create direct and personal experiences.

- Antoni Tapies

topic: Wise, Lying, Communication, Mass Communication, Wise Advice