Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2006-02-20 Feb 20, 2006In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.~ Charles de MontesquieuThere is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.~ Peyton Conway MarchTo enjoy freedom, if the platitude is pardonable, we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose-bush; we must train them, exactly and powerfully, here on the very spot.~ Virginia Woolf Feb 17, 2006During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information.~ Joseph Paul GoebbelsSome who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.~ Khalil GibranThe propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.~ Aldous Huxley Feb 16, 2006The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it is accurate, it follows that it is fair.~ Herbert B. SwopeAn able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.~ Joseph PulitzerIn the United States there is no phenomenon more threatening to popular government than the unwillingness of newspapers to give the facts to their readers.~ Nelson Antrim Crawford Feb 15, 2006The media I've had a lot to do with is lazy. We fed them and they ate it every day.~ Michael DeaverIt is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.~ Edmund BurkeThere is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations; danger in the concentration of ownership in the press…and danger in the increasing concentration of selection by book publishers and reviewers and by the producers of radio and television programs.~ Eugene McCarthy Feb 14, 2006The bigger the information media, the less courage and information they allow. Bigness means weakness.~ Eric SevareidThere is no such thing ... in America as an independent press.~ John Swinton Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print