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If you believe that when the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, then you believe that creating wealth causes poverty, and you're an idiot.

Michael Medved

Believe, Creating, Causes

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People.. .love to say that 'Violence never solved anything.' But what solved Hitler? Was It a team of social workers? Was it putting daisies into the gun barrels of Nazi Panzer divisions? Was it a commission that tried to understand what made Hitler sorry? ?No. What solved Hitler was violence.

Michael Medved

Sorry, Team, Gun

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Unfortunately our children today seem to spend less and less time with their overworked parents, and so they draw more information about the world from the images on movie and TV screens. The true power of the media is the ability to redefine reality, to alter our expectations about what constitutes normal life. TV and the movies have abused that power by advancing the notion that wholesome, ordinary happiness is impossible.

Michael Medved

Children, Reality, True Power

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The distortions and insults about organized religion will continue unabated as long as our popular culture continues its overall campaign against judgment and values. A war against standards leads logically and inevitably to hostility to religion because it is religious faith that provides the ultimate basis for all standards.

Michael Medved

Christian, Religious, War

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Poor people in America today (people who are officially in poverty) have a higher standard of living - in terms of medical standards, in terms of going to college, in terms of the way people live - than middle class people did thirty years ago.

Michael Medved

College, Years, Class

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Why is it offensive to portray a creep and a murderer as a homosexual, but totally acceptable to present him as a religious Christian?

Michael Medved

Christian, Religious, Offensive

Michael Medved (1992). “Hollywood vs. America: popular culture and the war on traditional values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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Hollywood's persistent hostility to religious values is not just peculiar, it is positively pathological.

Michael Medved

Christian, Religious, Hollywood

Michael Medved (1992). “Hollywood vs. America: popular culture and the war on traditional values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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The bottom line is not money but some sort of demonic compulsion that drives these people to lash out against Jesus Christ, against Christians, and against anyone who holds to a sincere belief in God, in spite of the fact that it is going to cost them tens of millions of dollars to do it. They are driven to 'make a statement' regardless of the consequences.

Michael Medved

Christian, Religious, Jesus

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The truth about Hamas and Islamic Jihad is that they don't prevent Israel from existing or even flourishing, they prevent Palestine from coming into existence

Michael Medved

Islamic, Israel, Flourishing

Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 20, 2012.

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The twentieth century provides little or no evidence in any corner of the globe to support the contention that religion causes most human conflict.

Michael Medved

Support, Religion, Littles

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If we wait for the entertainment industry to change its fundamental values, we may be waiting a long time. But we don't have to wait another day to scale back our own private consumption of television.

Michael Medved

Long, Waiting, Another Day

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My four years at Berkley represent two of the happiest weeks of my life.

Michael Medved

Years, Two, Four

"The Michael Medved Show", September 07, 2004.

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It makes no sense at all to try to deny the reality of Jewish power and prominence in popular culture. Any list of the most influential production executives at each of the major movie studios will produce a heavy majority of recognizably Jewish names.

Michael Medved

Reality, Names, Trying

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My objection is not that it's pro-gay but that it appears to be anti-marriage.

Michael Medved

Gay, Pro Gay, Objections

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Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television.

Michael Medved

Powerful, Voice, Tvs

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The left-leaning thinking that dominates the movie business follows a common liberal instinct to deny the spiritual dimension to every problem, thereby profoundly compounding the difficulties.

Michael Medved

Spiritual, Thinking, Dimensions

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Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later

Michael Medved

Pain, Winning, California

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It wasn't that expectations changed. But [teens] went from general expectations of success to having no idea of the right thing to do. In the '60s there was a strong prejudice against careerism. We were self-indulgent and self-destructive.

Michael Medved

Strong, Self, Ideas

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For many of the most powerful people in the entertainment business, hostility to organized religion goes so deep and burns so intensely that they insist on expressing that hostility, even at the risk of financial disaster.

Michael Medved

Christian, Religious, Powerful

Michael Medved (1992). “Hollywood vs. America: popular culture and the war on traditional values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left.

Michael Medved

Hero, Hollywood, Symbols

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For many celebrities, securing the publics votes can prove even more reassuring than winning an election by members of the Motion Picture Academy.

Michael Medved

Winning, Election, Vote

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Asking Hollywood to begin to show some restraint and balance in its antireligious fury is not the same as suggesting that the industry must transform itself into an agency for advancing the Word of God.

Michael Medved

Christian, Religious, Agency

Michael Medved (1992). “Hollywood vs. America: popular culture and the war on traditional values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.

Michael Medved

Weather, Complaining, Television

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Frightening media messages...pervade the news business, which really ought to be called "the bad news business" for its preoccupation with disaster and destruction. In broadcast journalism, killing is almost always covered, while kindness is almost always ignored. The more alarming a news item is, the more attention it receives.

Michael Medved

Kindness, Media, Messages

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An important film that must be seen. Saving Lincoln is moving, ingenious, original and impressive.

Michael Medved

Moving, Important, Saving

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Born: October 3, 1948
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