Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2007-02-21 Feb 21, 2007He [a U.S. Senator] knows he's got to buy time on my radio station, so he's going to lend me an ear. We're keeping them alive back home and that's why the newspaper and radio and TV people are more effective lobbyists.~ Joseph CostelloTelevision was our chief tool in selling our policy.~ Richard HaassTelevision, I would say, isn't an advertising medium. It's a selling medium.~ William S. Paley Feb 20, 2007We do nothing controversial. We're not in the investigative business. Our only concern is giving editorial support for our ad projects.~ Houston ChronicleOne should not associate with controversy; one should always reach for the highest ratings; one should never forget that there is safety in numbers; one should always remember that comedy, adventure, and escapism provide the best atmosphere for selling.~ Peter G. PetersonThe cold, hard facts of magazine publishing mean that those who advertise get editorial coverage.~ Richard Shortway Feb 19, 2007Only a large-scale popular movement toward decentralization and self-help can arrest the present tendency toward statism... A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers.~ Aldous HuxleyThe conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.~ Edward BernaysChief among the spoils of victory is the privilege of writing the history.~ Mark Alexander Feb 16, 2007Honor lies in honest toil.~ Grover ClevelandEveryone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone.~ Frederic BastiatDeath is better, a milder fate than tyranny.~ Aeschylus Feb 15, 2007Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.~ Albert EinsteinTreat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.~ Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMake men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.~ William Godwin Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print