Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [221-240] of 246 Media quotesMedia QuotesMedia Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.~ Adlai E. Stevenson II Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.~ Justice Potter Stewart The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.~ Tom Stoppard Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.~ Harriet Beecher Stowe The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.~ Harriet Beecher Stowe There is no such thing ... in America as an independent press.~ John Swinton The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it is accurate, it follows that it is fair.~ Herbert B. Swope The Illinois eavesdropping statute restricts a medium of expression commonly used for the preservation and communication of information and ideas, thus triggering First Amendment scrutiny. Illinois has criminalized the nonconsensual recording of most any oral communication, including recordings of public officials doing the public’s business in public and regardless of whether the recording is open or surreptitious. Defending the broad sweep of this statute, the State’s Attorney relies on the government’s interest in protecting conversational privacy, but that interest is not implicated when police officers are performing their duties in public places and engaging in public communications audible to persons who witness the events. Even under the more lenient intermediate standard of scrutiny applicable to content-neutral burdens on speech, this application of the statute very likely flunks. The Illinois eavesdropping statute restricts far more speech than necessary to protect legitimate privacy interests; as applied to the facts alleged here, it likely violates the First Amendment’s free-speech and free-press guarantees.~ Judge Diane Schwerm Sykes The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.~ Norman Thomas Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.~ Henry David Thoreau If you cannot convince them, confuse them.~ Harry S. Truman Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.~ Mark Twain If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.~ Mark Twain I am aware that when even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition... (more)~ Mark Twain According to the Taranto Principle, the press's failure to hold left-wingers accountable for bad behavior merely encourages the left's bad behavior to the point that its candidates are repellent to ordinary Americans.~ R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Everyone has the right…to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers.~ United Nations The media can now wistfully reflect on their glory days of the 1970's when the majority of people actually bought into their bullshit.~ Laura K. Van Onymous When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the [many] believe almost anything you want, and you can guide them.~ Gore Vidal The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity -- much less dissent.~ Gore Vidal It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships, that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.~ Voltaire Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print