Quote

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

We live in an age of mediocrity.

I want to be very careful about judging and how much to generalize about the use of media being pathological. For some people, it's a temptation and a pathology; for others, it's a lifeline.

For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.

Mediocrity is underrated.

Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live.

Everything about mediocrity kills me.

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.

Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.