„While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.“
— Andrea Dworkin Feminist writer 1946 - 2005
Right Wing Women, ch.2 (1978)
„Everyone gossips on television; it's all so trivial and it's impossible to hear anything.“
— Terry Gilliam, Context: I am quite bored nowadays. I don't know if it's age and the fact that I have seen so many things and am less surprised, or whether the problem is truly the content. But things have been repeating themselves for 30-40 years already. It seems to me that there is no desire to push the envelope or even to peek there. People are afraid. In the 1960s and 1970s we pushed the limits farther. More attention was paid to what was going on around.
Television and the media are everywhere and they are taking over so powerfully. They don't shut up for a second. So you are unable to think. It is very difficult to think independently when you are surrounded by all that noise. What I most aspire to is to be alone. Not lonely, but alone. To stop all this noise. That is what I do when I go to Umbria. There is no television there, no telephone.
The situation is especially serious with television. The money is dispersed among hundreds of stations so that no money is left for good things. In our time there was far greater depth. Not everything is artificial and as cheap as possible. Everyone gossips on television; it's all so trivial and it's impossible to hear anything.
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„See what gossip does. It begins with evil thought, and that in itself is a crime. For in everyone and in everything there is good; in everyone and in everything there is evil.“
— Jiddu Krishnamurti Indian spiritual philosopher 1895 - 1986
Context: See what gossip does. It begins with evil thought, and that in itself is a crime. For in everyone and in everything there is good; in everyone and in everything there is evil. Either of these we can strengthen by thinking of it, and in this way we can help or hinder evolution; we can do the will of the Logos or we can resist Him. If you think of the evil in another, you are doing at the same time three wicked things:
(1) You are filling your neighbourhood with evil thought instead of with good thought, and so you are adding to the sorrow of the world.
(2) If there is in that man the evil which you think, you are strengthening it and feeding it; and so you are making your brother worse instead of better. But generally the evil is not there, and you have only fancied it; and then your wicked thought tempts your brother to do wrong, for if he is not yet perfect you may make him that which you have thought him.
(3) You fill your own mind with evil thoughts instead of good; and so you hinder your own growth, and make yourself, for those who can see, an ugly and painful object instead of a beautiful and lovable one.
Not content with having done all this harm to himself and to his victim, the gossip tries with all his might to make other men partners in his crime. Eagerly he tells his wicked tale to them, hoping that they will believe it; and then they join with him in pouring evil thought upon the poor sufferer. And this goes on day after day, and is done not by one man but by thousands. Do you begin to see how base, how terrible a sin this is? You must avoid it altogether.
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„I believed that anything was possible, or at least because I didn't put together everyone else's "facts" and believe that winning was impossible.“
— Yanni Greek pianist, keyboardist, composer, and music producer 1954
„I always said God was against art and I still believe it. Anything obscene or trivial is blessed in this world and has a reward – I ask for no reward – only to live & to hear my work.“
— Edward Elgar English composer 1857 - 1934
Letter to A. J. Jaeger, October 9, 1900.
„Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.“
— Jean De La Fontaine French poet, fabulist and writer. 1621 - 1695
L'homme est ainsi bâti: Quand un sujet l'enflamme
L'impossibilité disparaît à son âme.
Book VIII (1678-1679), fable 25.
„The most trivial skirmish is not trivial to those who die in it, and so should not be trivial in any ultimate sense to us.“
— Gene Wolfe American science fiction and fantasy writer 1931
Chapter 13, "The Battles" (p. 95)
„Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.“
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
Cecil Graham http://books.google.com/books?id=8SzYgCNz-vwC&q="Gossip+is+charming+History+is+merely+gossip+But+scandal+is+gossip+made+tedious+by+morality"&pg=PT52#v=onepage, Act III
„I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality.“
— Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist 1817 - 1862
Context: It is so hard to forget what it is worse than useless to remember! If I am to be a thoroughfare, I prefer that it be of the mountain-brooks, the Parnassian streams, and not the town-sewers. There is inspiration, that gossip which comes to the ear of the attentive mind from the courts of heaven. There is the profane and stale revelation of the bar-room and the police court. The same ear is fitted to receive both communications. Only the character of the hearer determines to which it shall be open, and to which closed. I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality.
„If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.“
— John Lennon English singer and songwriter 1940 - 1980
As quoted in Guitar Player (1 August 2004), and in "Pax Patter" at ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) http://www.abc.net.au/civics/rights/pax.htm
„The principal safeguard is seclusion, that you should not, God forbid, leave the house, save for some exceedingly great need. … And even in the synagogue you should be very short and leave quickly. It is better to pray at home, for in the synagogue it is impossible to be saved from envy, and from hearing vain talk and gossip, and one is punished for this.“
— Vilna Gaon Polish-Lithuanian rabbi; Mitnagdim leader in opposition to Hasidism 1720 - 1797
Alim li-Terufa as cited in "Separation from the Worldly (Perishut)" http://etzion.org.il/en/separation-worldly-perishut
„Responsible journalism is hard. It isn't public relations. A responsible journalist digs for the truth, she doesn't just take her subject's agenda and run with it. That isn't journalism, that's "gossip," and like all gossip, it doesn't do anything positive for anyone.“
— Marc Randazza American writer 1969
„Television is becoming a collage — there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.“
— David Hockney British artist 1937
Interview with Paul Joyce, New York, November 1985, quoted in Hockney on Photography, ed. Wendy Brown (1988)
„Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.“
— Robert Schumann German composer, aesthete and influential music critic 1810 - 1856
Early Letters of Robert Schumann (1888), p. 82
