Presses Quotes

• Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose

  George Orwell

  Mean, Criticize, Freedom Of The Press

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.253, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Arabia, Weapons, Modern

  T. E. Lawrence (2015). “The Collected Works of Lawrence of Arabia (Unabridged): Seven Pillars of Wisdom + The Mint + The Evolution of a Revolt + Complete Letters (Including Translations of The Odyssey and The Forest Giant)”, p.766, e-artnow

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• Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion.

  Dudley Nichols

  Break Up, Uprising, Rebellion

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• What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

  Wendell Phillips

  War, Book, Reading

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.40

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• "It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to their governors the power of taking from them the trial by jury in civil cases, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce, the habeas corpus laws, and of yoking them with a standing army. This is a degeneracy in the principles of liberty... which I [would not have expected for at least] four centuries."

  Thomas Jefferson

  Army, Law, Liberty

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• The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

  Christopher Lasch

  Encouragement, Jobs, Information

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• People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

  A. J. Liebling

  Print Media, People, Political

  The New Yorker, en.wikiquote.org. April 7, 1956.

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• Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

  Thomas Jefferson

  President, Newspapers, Freedom Of The Press

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.400, Penguin

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• The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

  Douglas Engelbart

  Writing, Technology, Digital Revolution

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• Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Reading, Mean, Men

  Letter to Edward Carrington, 16 Jan. 1787

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• Another time factor is output: proofing and printing. That is, getting your work out of the computer and onto paper and having it satisfy you. It can be time consuming and expensive.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Work Out, Paper, Computer

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• When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Answers, Sometimes, Pauses

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.9, Penguin

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• A revolution cannot progress without the fuel of terror. With time that relationship inverts: the revolution presses forward for the sake of terror. Like an artist, the man creating terror should be detached, cold-blooded. He must keep in mind that the energy of the terror he releases can consume him.

  Young-Ha Kim

  Artist, Men, Creating

  Young-ha Kim (2007). “I Have the Right to Destroy Myself”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This is what it's all about. From what I could see, you could get a bunch of people together, whip up the press and have some impact.

  William Safire

  Impact, People, Together

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  A little nepotism never hurt nobody, honey. If you got it, use it. Press on with it. Remind them of it.

  Lena Horne

  Hurt, Use, Littles

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When things are not going the way you want them to go, you start to press.

  Gaby Sanchez

  Want, Way

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• The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about.

  Walter Lippmann

  Thinking, Doe

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• Oh press - must you spread hate? Can't you just stick to being wrong?

  Jon Stewart

  Hate, Sticks, Spread

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• Is there any other industry [than the press] in this country which seeks to presume so completely to give the customer what he does not want?

  Rupert Murdoch

  Country, Media, Giving

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• Liberalism is a creation of the seventeenth century, fathered by British philosopher John Locke (1632-1704). For Locke, liberalism means limited government, the rule of law, due process, liberty, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, separation of church and state, and separation of government powers into branches that oversee each other's authority.

  Peter Boghossian

  Mean, Law, Government

  Peter Boghossian (2013). “A Manual for Creating Atheists”, p.129, Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA)

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• I have sworn to uphold the Constitution ... and a free press is absolutely vital to the freedom of this country.

  Peter Pace

  Country, Constitution, Free Press

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• We get death threats, kidnapping threats. The press criticizes my weight. It's just the English way.

  Victoria Beckham

  Way, Weight, Threat

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• A cantankerous press, an obstinate press, a ubiquitous press must be suffered by those in authority in order to preserve the even greater values of freedom of expression and the right of the people to know.

  Murray Gurfein

  Expression, Order, People

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• I do not believe that it can be too often repeated that the freedoms of speech, press, petition and assembly guaranteed by the First Amendment must be accorded to the ideas we hate or sooner or later they will be denied to the ideas we cherish. The first banning of an association because it advocates hated ideas - whether that association be called a political party or not - marks a fateful moment in the history of a free country.

  Hugo Black

  Country, Hate, Party

  "Communist Party v. SACB, 367 U.S. 1". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 5, 1961.

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• I think the most important thing for the public and the press is to just listen to what Donald Trump says and follow up and ask questions about what appear to be either contradictory or uninformed or outright wacky ideas.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Ideas, Important

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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