Arthur Hays Sulzberger Quotes

• For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  New Year, Time, Years

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• Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he has based it. Give him the truth and he may still go wrong when he has the chance to be right, but give him no news or present him only with distorted and incomplete data, with ignorant, sloppy or biased reporting, with propaganda and deliberate falsehoods, and you destroy his whole reasoning processes, and make him something less than a man.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Men, Data, Giving

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• I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Inspirational, Believe, Fall

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger (1953). “Have We the Courage to be Free?”

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• Freedom 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 Sulzberger

  Citizens, Benefits, Crux

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• Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he bases it

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Men, Decision, Information

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• We [journalists] tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Cat, Jumping, Care

  On journalism, in 'Time' 8 May 1950

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• Along with responsible newspapers we must have responsible readers.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Responsible, Newspapers, Reader

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• Any coalition has its troubles, as every married man knows.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Men, Married, Trouble

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• Freedom cannot be trifled with. You cannot surrender it for security unless in a state of war, and then you must guard carefully the methods of so doing.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  War, Surrender, States

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• The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Eyebrows, United States, British

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• All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Mistake, Weakness, Nations

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• News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Thinking, Shadow, News

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• Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  This Generation, Negative, Generations

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• What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Thinking, Iran, Turkeys

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• I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Warrior, Looks, Movement

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• The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Mean, Affair, Should

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• Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Pride, Agreement, Desire

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• I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up something of infinitely greater value of the world. ... I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Giving Up, Warrior, Looks

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