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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I'm not at an extreme, but I do think that Donald Trump is a self-created creature. But the media has feasted on his spectacle and he wouldn't live without the attention. He's repaid the favor by attacking the press, but that's generated more reactive coverage.

  David Folkenflik

  Thinking, Self, Media

  "What Is - Or Should Be - Media's Role In Donald Trump's Rise?". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. April 2, 2016.

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• The press is supposed to equip people to act as citizens and not just consumers of programming that happens to be news.

  David Folkenflik

  People, Citizens, News

  "What Is - Or Should Be - Media's Role In Donald Trump's Rise?". "Weekend Edition Saturday", www.npr.org. April 2, 2016.

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• I feel like thanking Paul Dacre every time, because the reason they ask me is because they think I've come through the other end with a pretty good reputation. Loads of people get a bad press but have a good reputation. [David] Beckham - think what he went through. [Bill] Clinton, likewise. You just have to be true to yourself.

  Alastair Campbell

  Thinking, People, Bills

  "Alastair Campbell on spin, Iraq and a recurring nightmare about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown". Interview with Simon Kelner, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2016.

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• I wish the press was fair. They're really dishonest. The media is really dishonest. It's incredible.

  Donald Trump

  Media, Wish, Incredibles

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Paul [ Burwell] and I had also got interested in making books. We'd been working with Bob Cobbing, the sound poet, since the beginning of the 70s, and Bob had this press called Writers Forum.

  David Toop

  Book, Sound, Bob

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The bank's product is debt, because the banks want to make sure that they can get paid for the debt. But ultimately the only party that can pay the debt is the government, because it runs the printing presses. So the debts ultimately either are paid by the government, or they're paid by a huge transfer of property from debtors to creditors - or, the debts are written off.

  Michael Hudson

  Running, Party, Government

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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