Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2022-05-15 May 13, 2022Freedom of the press, or, to be more precise, the benefit of freedom of the press, belongs to everyone – to the citizen as well as the publisher… The crux is not the publisher’s ‘freedom to print’; it is, rather, the citizen’s ‘right to know.’~ Arthur Hays SulzbergerThe majority of us are for free speech when it deals with subjects concerning which we have no intense feelings.~ Edmund B. ChaffeeCensorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.~ Mark Twain May 12, 2022As Hitler showed us, a press suppressed does not make a recovery. As Lenin indicated, a press controlled does not revert to a critic’s role. As history reminds us, free speech surrendered is rarely recovered.~ William J. SmallBooks won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom.~ A. Whitney GriswoldPersecution for opinion is the master vice of society.~ Frances Wright May 11, 2022The 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 OnymousThe idea that political speech had to be protected at any cost dates to Colonial days, during which the press and the public were not allowed to express themselves freely on matters of public concern. The King and his government often used restrictive measures, such as licensing of printing presses and the doctrine of seditious libel, to silence unfavorable public comment.~ Craig R. SmithTruth and news are not the same thing.~ Katharine Graham May 10, 2022[Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own.~ Milovan DjilasEvery compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.~ Sinclair LewisEvery book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered...History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.~ George Orwell May 9, 2022There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech or witty saying, it is a literal fact, very momentous to us in these times.~ Edmund BurkePrivate opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.~ Harriet Beecher StoweI would not be fooled by the old myth that reporting is about objectivity. Deciding what is news is the most subjective of acts and it is probably the most important thing that we do.~ Carl Bernstein Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print