Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2006-02-13 Feb 13, 2006I am far from denying that newspapers in democratic countries lead citizens to do very ill-considered things in common; but without newspapers there would be hardly any common action at all. So they mend many more ills than they cause.~ Alexis de TocquevilleIf newsmen do not tell the truth as they see it because it might make waves, or if their bosses decide something should or should not be broadcast because of Washington or Main Street consequences, we have dishonored ourselves and we have lost the First Amendment by default.~ Richard SalantNothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.~ Thomas Jefferson Feb 10, 2006The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.~ Boris PasternakIt is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.~ Cornelius TacitusThe American’s conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man’s way of life.~ Walter Lippmann Feb 9, 2006Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervour - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always, there has been some terrible evil at home, or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.~ General Douglas MacArthurThe trouble with most folks isn't so much their ignorance, as knowing so many things that ain't so.~ Josh BillingsThe most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.~ Samuel Butler Feb 8, 2006The ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.~ Albert EinsteinBut those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the clay of which man is master, but the truths or semblances of truth which have a certain mastery over man. The material is explosive because it must be taken seriously. The men writing books really are throwing bombs.~ Gilbert Keith ChestertonA radical is one who speaks the truth.~ Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr. Feb 7, 2006A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.~ Samuel Taylor ColeridgeFor those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of 'brainwashing under freedom' to which we are subjected and which all too often we serve as willing or unwitting instruments.~ Noam ChomskyPrivate opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.~ Harriet Beecher Stowe Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print