Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of U.S.A. - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

Marshall McLuhan
Some Similar Quotes
  1. War is what happens when language fails. - Margaret Atwood

  2. Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. - Ernest Hemingway

  3. The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them. - J.r.r. Tolkien

  4. If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war. - Leo Tolstoy

  5. Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. - Anonymous

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  2. Art is whatever you can get away with.

  3. A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight andunderstanding.

  4. Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools!

  5. American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

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