Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2016-12-11 Dec 9, 2016Newspaper editors separate the wheat from the chaff -- and print the chaff.~ Adlai E. Stevenson IIThe road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.~ Bill ClintonI used to be employed as a field engineer servicing [a major broadcast network's] distribution equipment, specifically their affiliates' satellite dishes. I've had many talks with TV newsmen. The most telling was one who confessed that he didn't think he could continue his job and live with himself because he daily saw 'the difference between what I am forced to report and what's really happening.' He told me that, at the first meeting with 'corporate's' news director [from the corporate holding company that owned the station, not the network], the ND told them that 'our job as reporters was to shape public opinion.' When someone protested that their job was to discover and report the truth, the ND responded, 'Whatever the public's perception is is the truth and it's your job to make sure that they have the proper perceptions.' That man's statement is always in the back of my mind whenever I see or read anything in the 'news,' that the job of reporters today is not to report hard, verifiable facts but rather to shape public opinion using selected facts presented in carefully arranged fashion.~ Chris Meissen Dec 8, 2016A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.~ Martin H. FischerIt is time for our school systems to stop accepting the gospel of that false religion and start doing their due diligence. Our children should be taught about the demonstrable solar cycles; and the whole human-caused Global Warming theory, along with the Hockey Stick Hoax, should be taught only as another example, after Piltdown Man and pre-Copernican theories of planetary movement, of how science can be corrupted when ideology gets ahead of the data.~ Orson Scott CardSay not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure.~ The Mishnah Dec 7, 2016All animals are created equal but some animals are more equal than others.~ George OrwellFor the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.~ Niccolo MachiavelliA tyrant…is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.~ Plato Dec 6, 2016Progressives understand that their program for a government-centered society becomes more plausible the more people believe that work -- individual striving -- is unavailing. Government grows as fatalism grows, and fatalism grows as progressivism inculcates in people the demoralizing -- make that de-moralizing -- belief that they are victims of circumstances.~ George WillTHE most widespread form of child abuse in the United States is parents' sending children to the government to be educated.~ Neal BoortzThe function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.~ Norman Mailer Dec 5, 2016Printers are educated in the Belief, that when Men differ in Opinion, both sides ought equally to have the Advantage of being heard by the Public; and that when Truth and Error have fair Play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter: Hence [printers] cheerfully serve all contending Writers that pay them well, without regarding on which side they are of the Question in Dispute.~ Benjamin FranklinA forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.~ Sir Francis BaconSearch for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.~ Anne Louise Germaine de Stael Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print