If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.
Newspaper Quotes
It’s always darkest before dawn. So if you’re going to steal the neighbor’s newspaper, that’s the time to do it.
I am unable to understand how a man of honor can take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
Its (the press’s) function of telling people what happened was subordinated to the apparently greater function of saving the nation’s business. Having adopted the official doctrine that business was fundamentally sound and that the only trouble was lack of confidence, most of the newspapers were trying to make their readers confident again and to banish […]
I’m in Ohio right now, visiting family. The folks in the suburb where I grew up – good, honest people I truly care about – read their paper every single day, and are almost assuredly under the illusion that they’re informing themselves about the world. Quite plainly the opposite. I’ll say it again: What they’re […]
America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
I am obliged to mention this personal fact lest I should be accused of a prejudice against newspapers when I say that I object to the reading of newspapers in the morning train. Newspapers are produced with rapidity, to be read with rapidity. There is no place in my daily programme for newspapers. I read […]
The man on the news is going over the top, Now he’ll say anything so his show don’t flop, Wall Street’s down, so what, And according to the market analysts The world’s gonna stop. They shout the story to the nation. Pass on the panic to the population. This is end of civilization, It’s all […]
