#mages

In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive. ↗

— David Duchovny

#arrogant #images #men #oddly

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.' ↗

— Brian Eno

#action #agenda #course #devious #discussion

A Congressional Budget Office study estimated that gulf energy infrastructure repair costs will be between $18 billion and $31 billion, just from the damages the hurricane created. ↗

— Mark Foley

#billion #budget #congressional #costs #created

I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#i #images #imagination #lot #use

Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing. ↗

— Annette Funicello

#black-and-white #days #experience #found #images

Truth never damages a cause that is just. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#damages #just #never #truth

The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the other; historical violence revealing the tragic flaw of the hero who must then return to the land of origin; myth of death and renewal and silence from which new words and images will arise, keeps on turning in spite of the blindness of purely lineal thought. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#myth #words #death

Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth? ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#africa #african #ancient #any #anything

The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates. ↗

— Mary Landrieu

#care #country #damages #demands #effect

The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#events #images #news #propaganda #reporting