John

“Television is at its most trivial and, therefore, most dangerous when its aspirations are high, when it presents itself as a carrier of important cultural conversations.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“It was not for the entire world that Christ made atonement, for if He had, all the world would be saved.”
― Steven J. Lawson, Foundations of Grace, 1400 BC – AD 100

“I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise, ingenuity, impudence, and resource in certain individuals, it proves to my mind the wide prevalence of that form of mental degradation which is called gullibility. [An anarchist]”
― Joseph Conrad, A Set of Six

“All government is representative government until it begins to decay. Unfortunately (as is also evident) all government begins to decay the instant it begins to actually govern. (From "A Miscellany of Men")”
― Chesterton, G. K.