58 Quotes by Michael Medved

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.

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.

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.

We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it.

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

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.

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

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever want to run in the first place.

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