Quotes of Press - somelinesforyou

“ Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society. ”

- Felix Frankfurter

“ For thou, O God, hast proved us; thou has tried us, as silver is tried. ”

- Bible

“ Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. ”

- Abbott Joseph Liebling

“ If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing press. ”

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

“ The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body. ”

- Warren Buffett

“ The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses. ”

- Vladimir Lenin

“ And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself. ”

- Bible

“ Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous — who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves? ”

- John Keats

“ Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me. ”

- Bible

“ When found, make a note of. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know; the second, is to find out who will tell you. ”

- John Gunther

“ They (the publishers) would be ecstatic, I just refuse to. You can't repeat a great act. ”

- Colleen McCullough

“ Thou hast commanded, and so it is, that every inordinate affection should be its own punishment. ”

- St. Augustine

“ Never believe in mirrors or newspapers. ”

- John Osborne

“ Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher. ”

- Marshall McLuhan

“ Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered. - Helena Petrova Blavatsky. ”

- Helena Petrova Blavatsky

“ Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians. ”

- David Brinkley

“ Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news. ”

- James Reston

“ Press close bare-bosomed night — press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds! Night of the large few stars! Still nodding night! Mad naked summer night. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad… . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse. ”

- Albert Camus

“ Journalism over here is not only an obsession but a drawback that cannot be overrated. Politicians are frightened of the press, and in the same way as bull-fighting has a brutalizing effect upon Spain headlines of murder, rape, and rubbish, excite and demoralize the American public. ”

- Margot Asquith

“ The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provided you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking… ”

- James E. Burke

“ Obviously the publishers, because of historical curiosity or the significance of it, I think expected more,... It obviously was not as much as some of my other books, but I don't know how much a writer can get involved in trying to second-guess that. ”

- Bob Woodward

“ I think theater ought to be theatrical... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's — there's always some kind of ambush involved in the experience. You're being ambushed by an unexpected word, or by an elephant falling out of the cupboard, whatever it is. ”

- Tom Stoppard

“ Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom. ”

- Geoffrey Fisher

“ For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three. ”

- Alice Kahn

“ For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news. ”

- Gloria Borger

“ The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country. ”

- Learned Hand

“ Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few. ”

- John Masefield

“ Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one. ”

- A. J. Liebling
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