“In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.”
Woody Allen
“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
Oscar Wilde
“When good Americans die they go to Paris.”
“We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.”
Mark Twain
“I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.”
Groucho Marx
“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.”
“Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America--not on the battlefields of Vietnam.”
Marshall McLuhan
