Georges Duhamel: Radio

Georges Duhamel was French writer. Explore interesting quotes on radio.
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“Radio and cinema are daily playing a more and more important part, not only in the amusements of the twentieth-century man but also in the visible formation of his character.”

Georges Duhamel

Source: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 20

Parting

“For many people in the future, radio will take the place of an inner life.”

Georges Duhamel

Source: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 35

Life , People , Future

“Use your radio, but know how to distrust it—and do not let a day go by without reading and meditation if you want to save your soul, that soul which is yours and yours alone.”

Georges Duhamel

Source: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 42

Soul , Reading

“… the cinema and the radio and the effect they have had in weakening the impulse to spiritual effort”

Georges Duhamel

Source: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 24

Effort

“One of my friends whom I hold in high esteem admitted to me the other day that when he wants to work nowadays … he has to turn on his radio. The droning of the loudspeaker—so he says—puts him in a favorable frame of mind and ideas pour out. I cannot help but thinking that this is not the act of a true musician. For thought has a rhythm of its own, which must either clash with the rhythm from outside and lose energy, or else submit to the outer impulse in restless slavery.”

Georges Duhamel

Source: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 34

Idea , Thinking , Help

“When I say, “Beware of the radio if you want to improve your mind,” … I am warning the public against their worst enemy, conformity.”

Georges Duhamel

Source: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 42

“Radio, on the other hand, is now the chief agent of imperialism. It does not purify the spirit of man, does not, like the book, bring him back to the sanctuary of solitude, but throws him to the lions, subtly preparing his mind for the blood and chains of public sacrifice.”

Georges Duhamel

Source: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 42

Books , Solitude