Welcome to our collection of media quotes! In the fast-paced world of news and entertainment, the media serves as a mirror reflecting society’s thoughts, beliefs, and values. From profound insights to witty remarks, media personalities and pundits offer commentary that shapes public discourse and sparks conversations around the globe.
In this curated compilation, we bring you a diverse array of quotes spanning various topics, from politics and pop culture to technology and beyond. Whether you’re seeking inspiration, seeking a new perspective, or simply looking for a memorable soundbite, our collection has something for everyone. Join us as we explore the profound, insightful, and sometimes humorous words of journalists, authors, and commentators that capture the essence of our times. So, without further ado, dive into the world of media quotes below and unleash your creativity in sharing, reshaping, or simply contemplating these impactful words.
When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between ‘the accuser’ and ‘the accused,’ there is no longer a victim or even an alleged victim – a flesh and blood person who was harmed by the violent act of another. Jackson Katz
Social media is not a safe space. Tarana Burke
I’m inspired to post a lot of positive messages on my social media because, growing up, I felt as though I needed somebody that looked like me in the limelight or in entertainment to promote being different and promote accepting your differences. Nia Jax
Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture. Allen Ginsberg
The 1920s was the beginning of the media age. For the first time people were taking influences from the radio, Vogue and Hollywood. Dawn O’Porter
Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally. Ulrich Beck
There are positive things that come of social media as well as negative. Millie Bobby Brown
When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you’ve got to set those phones down. Michelle Obama
Social media can sometimes influence the charts, but I think that only great music makes it to the top. The good songs make it. Dua Lipa
My cell phone is the number one way for me to communicate with my fans. I love the direct connection I can make via social media whether I am on the road or at home. Cody Simpson
Some days, I’ll be very down and out, but you won’t be able to tell, really, because I don’t express that side of myself on social media. That’s the side of myself that I express through music. Lil Peep
The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the smaller we are, the more aware we are of how insignificant any one of us is. Jock Sturges
Everyone is comparing lives on social media and wants the perfect body, perfect image, perfect outfit, perfect life – we’re striving for this perfection, and it’s so unhealthy because there’s no such thing as perfection. Emily Atack
I’m not into social media. I’m like from another century. Eva Green
It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time. Alexis Ohanian
Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations. Pat Brown
This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful. Prem Rawat
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. W. H. Auden
When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They’re playing the sprint. They’re not worried about lifetime value and retention. They’re worried about short-term goals. Gary Vaynerchuk
I am a huge advocate for anti-bullying in our youth. What I have seen with the rise of social media is that children are not facing bullying on a playground, they are facing it on their cell phones. Whitney Wolfe Herd
The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation’s in trouble. Dave Brat
You don’t need to go far to see the hatred and abuse that happens online. Even using social media is anti-social because people are always on their phones. Ronny Chieng
Don’t hate the media, become the media. Jello Biafra
I don’t do social media. Joe Gilgun
Social media, unfortunately, just makes it a lot easier to be jealous. It sets up false expectations of reality, so it’s really easy to look at someone else’s life online and assume that they have everything going great for them and that their life is perfect. Franchesca Ramsey
Social media is all about presenting the happiest, most positive version of yourself to the world. I’m here to say that we all have bad days and that it’s easy to feel isolated – but the truth is that beneath the sassy facade all girls suffer from the same insecurities. Carrie Hope Fletcher
Wealth can be used to make a huge difference in the world; social media can be used to have a positive impact on people, or it can be used for exactly the opposite. Jay Shetty
The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere. Michel De Certeau
Media, the plural of mediocrity. Jimmy Breslin
Wouldn’t it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League’s? Rush Limbaugh
I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they’re looting, if you see a white family it says they’re looking for food. Kanye West
Using social media to hurt and destroy is callous, acted out by cowards hiding behind computers. My advice is to ignore negativity. Focus on the love around. Martin Garrix
People are scared to have a strong opinion because, with social media, almost everyone lives the life of a celebrity. Yungblud
Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community. Simon Mainwaring
To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question. Al Franken
Radio in England is nonexistent. It’s very bad English use of a media system, typically English use. David Bowie
The creation continues incessantly through the media of man. Antoni Gaudi
The dark side of social media is that, within seconds, anything can be blown out of proportion and taken out of context. And it’s very difficult not to get swept up in it all. Nicola Formichetti
His father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of my generals, he still covetously desires more, and my being without issue spurs him on to this wicked design. But Philotas takes wrong measures. Alexander the Great
Social media is a double-edged sword. I’ve gotten in trouble for announcing, too soon, something that the network or the studio wanted to do, and it steals some of the thunder, so to speak. Charisma Carpenter
Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afraid of their food, and what does fear of food do to the digestive system? I am sure that an unhappy or suspicious stomach, constricted and uneasy with worry, cannot digest properly. Julia Child
Social media is reducing social barriers. It connects people on the strength of human values, not identities. Narendra Modi
Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky. Brene Brown
I’m not an active person on social media, really. I always get nervous tweeting anything. The moment I tweet, I get this plummeting sense of regret. I delete roughly 95 percent of my tweets immediately. Charlotte Ritchie
The Kingdom is the love of God prevailing in politics, in business, in government, in media. It is all the impact of the laws of God creating a social environment where the strong help the weak, where those who have give to those who don’t. It’s a society where relationships are built on love. Myles Munroe
Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They’re destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division. Jerry Brown
The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard. Bill Gates
The social media platforms have taken over the distribution of news globally. They treat a lie the same way you would treat a fact. Maria Ressa
He’s an absolute icon. Everything he brings, how he carries himself. Never having trouble with the media, never done anything wrong. He’s a superstar for a reason. He’s LeBron James for a reason. Frances Tiafoe
We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, ‘What is real?’ Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. Philip K. Dick
Never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today. Marco Rubio
We need to start identifying the triggers that aggravate mental health issues in our society – bullying, social media negativity and anxiety, gender based violence, substance abuse, stigma around issues such as maternal issues, etc., and we need to speak up about these more and get to the source of the problems. Sanam Saeed
I’ve told town hall participants and reporters in the media that we can protect the Second Amendment and also protect people’s lives. Eric Swalwell
For all my friends in the media who like quotes, mark this quote down. From this day on I’d like to be known as ‘The Big Aristotle’ because Aristotle once said, ‘Excellence is not a singular act; it’s a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.’ Shaquille O’Neal
The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message. Pope John Paul II
Nearly every coach I’ve talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don’t know if that’s right. Bear Bryant
Whoever controls the media, controls the mind. Jim Morrison
Foolish people follow the system, get caught up in media news, what the government wants you to believe and all the higher powers want you to believe, and go down the same path as all the sheep in the cattle market. Tyson Fury
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism. Graham Greene
Social media is something of a double-edged sword. At its best, social media offers unprecedented opportunities for marginalized people to speak and bring much needed attention to the issues they face. At its worst, social media also offers ‘everyone’ an unprecedented opportunity to share in collective outrage without reflection. Roxane Gay
The more social media we have, the more we think we’re connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other. JR
Language makes infinite use of finite media. Wilhelm von Humboldt
I think there should be regulations on social media to the degree that it negatively affects the public good. Elon Musk
Social media is the ultimate equalizer. It gives a voice and a platform to anyone willing to engage. Amy Jo Martin
The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions. Tariq Ramadan
In the beginning, the media was calling me a bad boy all the time because of the way I act and feel onstage. None of them have ever taken the time to get to know me when I climb offstage. Bobby Brown
The world is such a big place, and there’s so much that goes on, but a lot of the media really just cover the same thing over and over again. Jenna Bush
Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media. Noam Chomsky
In the age of social media, everyone’s a newspaper columnist, exaggerating what they think and feel. Charlie Brooker
Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication. Marshall McLuhan
There are things that people say that hurt my feelings or whatever, especially with social media right now. It can be the most amazing thing, and it can also be the most negative and detrimental thing. Zendaya
You need to be able to work with people. Especially in football, it is not a QB’s game… even though the media likes to make it into that – it takes the whole team. Joe Montana
I think social media has taken over for our generation. It’s a big part of our lives, and it’s kind of sad. Kendall Jenner
I just constantly tell myself that I should be the only one to define my worth and what I’m capable of and how I perceive myself. And that I should never source that worth from other people, especially strangers on social media. They don’t know who I am, the length of my journey, who I am as a person. Catriona Gray
I’m not a social media person; I don’t know what’s going on unless somebody tells me. Tyler Perry
Social media is an amazing tool, but it’s really the face-to-face interaction that makes a long-term impact. Felicia Day
The power of social media is it forces necessary change. Erik Qualman
I am shocked by the easy attitude of many in the media towards disclosing our Nation’s secrets. Todd Tiahrt
We derive so much of our self-confidence and validation from Instagram. Just imagine one day Instagram gets deleted like all of your friends who you think you have on social media, all these likes and comments just disappear, what are we left with? We have stopped valuing human relationships and contact. Ananya Panday
The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news… and it’s not entirely the media’s fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news. Peter McWilliams
We get to live in a time that we get to use social media as a tool. It’s not just a face on a piece of paper, and that’s what makes you someone’s favorite model. We can have a very similar sense of humor as someone, and that’s why we’re their favorite model, or our personal style, off the runway, is why we’re their favorite. Gigi Hadid
It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media. Christopher Lasch
I’ve always talked to the media. I’m pretty respectful to the media. Bryce Harper
The influence of social media is unbelievable. It’s sad to see – it’s a fake life that some people live. Virgil van Dijk
If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly. Thomas Sowell
The great thing about social media was how it gave a voice to voiceless people. Jon Ronson
On the fields of Media, of Arabia, and of Armenia, two great armies will assemble thrice. The host near the bank of the Araxes, they will fall in the land of the great Suleiman. Nostradamus
The secret of success in every field is redefining what success means to you. It can’t be your parent’s definition, the media’s definition, or your neighbor’s definition. Otherwise, success will never satisfy you. RuPaul
There’s a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don’t have to think, you just have to get more information – gets very dangerous. Edward de Bono
Fake news is a big thing in the field of Social Media Journalism. Fake news can be as simple has spreading misinformation.or as dangerous as smearing hateful propaganda. Fabrizio Moreira
We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us. Gore Vidal
Social media is an advertisement for the superficial extroverted self. Hozier
When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, ‘Can I use a lifeline?’ Robin Williams
Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years. Steven Spielberg
It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands of messages and voices bombard us from the moment we wake, fighting for our attention. All we see and hear, all day long, is news. And most of it is bad. Joseph Prince
The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself. James Wolcott
Sometimes you need that time away to disconnect from social media. Skai Jackson
Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why? A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
I feel social media can be very distracting, unhealthy, and harmful to one’s self-confidence. I don’t even log on to it on my phone except when I post something on Instagram. Rupi Kaur