Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [121-140] of 288 Press quotesPress QuotesPress Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Our job [journalism] is to monitor the centres of power.~ Amira Hass If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all.~ Vaclav Havel Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice.~ Hearst newspapers nationwide We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others.~ William Randolph Hearst We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy.~ Chris Hedges Limiting the freedom of news ‘just a little bit’ is in the same category within the classic example ‘a little bit pregnant.’~ Robert A. Heinlein To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or knaves.~ Claude-Adrien Helvetius In relation to the political decontamination of our public life, the government will embark upon a systematic campaign to restore the nation’s moral and material health. The whole educational system, theater, film, literature, the press and broadcasting – all these will be used as a means to this end.~ Adolf Hitler Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure.~ William Earnest Hocking To prevent inquiry is among the worst of evils.~ Thomas Holcroft I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country... Only the emergency that makes it immediately dangerous to leave the correction of evil counsels to time warrants making any exception to the sweeping command, 'Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech.'~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. To silence criticism is to silence freedom.~ Sidney Hook We do nothing controversial. We're not in the investigative business. Our only concern is giving editorial support for our ad projects.~ Houston Chronicle I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.~ Edgar Watson Howe The liberty of the press is most generally approved when it takes liberties with the other fellow, and leaves us alone.~ Edgar Watson Howe The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic government.~ Edgar Watson Howe The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. These indeed have been historic weapons in the defense of liberty, as the pamphlets of Thomas Paine and others in our history abundantly attest.~ Justice Charles Evans Hughes The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.~ Hubert H. Humphrey 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.... The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.~ Aldous Huxley Only 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 Huxley Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print