Famous Neil Postman Quotes

  • Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration – Neil Postman

    Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration– Neil Postman

  • In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself. – Neil Postman

    In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself.– Neil Postman

  • What’s wrong with turning back the clock if the clock is wrong? We need not be slaves to our technologies – Neil Postman

    What’s wrong with turning back the clock if the clock is wrong? We need not be slaves to our technologies– Neil Postman

  • It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcoticized by technological diversions – Neil Postman

    It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcoticized by technological diversions– Neil Postman

  • …people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think. – Neil Postman

    …people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.– Neil Postman

  • It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions. – Neil Postman

    It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.– Neil Postman

  • The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation. – Neil Postman

    The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.– Neil Postman

  • Language has an ideological agenda that is apt to be hidden from view. – Neil Postman

    Language has an ideological agenda that is apt to be hidden from view.– Neil Postman

  • A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another. – Neil Postman

    A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.– Neil Postman