Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2005-08-02 Aug 2, 2005The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as one of the great bulwarks of liberty, shall be inviolable.~ James MadisonCensorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.~ John OsborneNo nation, ancient or modern, ever lost the liberty of speaking freely, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.~ John Peter Zenger Aug 1, 2005There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.~ William JamesI think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country... Only the emergency that makes it immediately dangerous to leave the correction of evil counsels to time warrants making any exception to the sweeping command, 'Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech.'~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.~ Thomas Jefferson Jul 29, 2005Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.~ Richard SalantThere are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.~ Benjamin DisraeliWe find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they help distribute to the public; by which means a falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity.~ John Dryden Jul 28, 2005I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology. ...It's importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda ...Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated.~ Bertrand RussellThe most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man’s innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions.~ Jean-Jacques RousseauIt is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.~ Sally Kempton Jul 27, 2005Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose.~ Joseph Paul GoebbelsAll propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those toward whom it is directed will understand it... Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.~ Adolf HitlerThe more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.~ Dr. Joseph Mengele Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print