Presses Quotes - Page 26

• God if the press ever quoted anyone correctly it would be brilliant.

  Lauren Bacall

  Memorable, Would Be, Brilliant

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• You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Important, Technique

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• We're losing social skills, the human interaction skills, how to read a person's mood, to read their body language, how to be patient until the moment is right to make or press a point. Too much exclusive use of electronic information dehumanises what is a very, very important part of community life and living together.

  Vincent Nichols

  Skills, Community, Important

  "Archbishop Vincent Nichols voices fears over social networking sites". www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2009.

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• Oh, wherefore come ye forth in triumph from the north,
  With your hands, and your feet, and your raiment all red?
  And wherefore doth your rout send forth a joyous shout?
  And whence be the grapes of the wine-press which ye tread?

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Wine, Hands, Feet

  Thomas Babbington Macaulay, “The Battle Of Naseby”

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• If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Book, Land, Media Control

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.418, Best Books on

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• The press is easier to strangle than to look in the eyes.

  Winston Churchill

  Eye, Looks, Censorship

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• There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Education, Men, Law

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.89

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• The notion that the press was used in the [first Iraq] war is incorrect. The press wanted to be used. It saw itself as part of the war effort.

  Chris Hedges

  War, Iraq, Effort

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• But now, I, August Comte, have discovered the truth. Therefore, there is no longer any need for freedom of thought or freedom of the press. I want to rule and to organize the whole country.

  Auguste Comte

  Country, August, Needs

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• What is the use of freedom of the press if the government is in possession of all the printing presses, what does freedom of assembly avail if all the meeting places belong to the government? In a society in which there is no more personal and economic freedom, even the freest form of the state cannot make political independence possible.

  Eugen Richter

  Philosophy, Government, Political

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• You know, in this business, you don't have any control over what the press says and how they portray things. And that's their prerogative. But I think anybody who looks at it objectively has trouble making the case that somehow this is a bad economy.

  Dick Cheney

  Thinking, Looks, Trouble

  Interview With Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. June 25, 2004.

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• Why would scientists dedicated to uncovering the truth about the natural world deliberately misrepresent the work of their own colleagues? Why would they spread accusations with no basis? Why would they refuse to correct their arguments once they had been shown to be incorrect? And why did the press continue to quote them, year after year, even as their claims were shown, one after another, to be false?

  Naomi Oreskes

  Years, World, Argument

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• Awake, my soul! Stretch every nerve, And press with vigor on; A heavenly race demands thy zeal, And an immortal crown.

  Philip Doddridge

  Race, Soul, Vigor

  Philip Doddridge, John Doddridge HUMPHREYS (1839). “Scriptural Hymns ... New and corrected edition, containing many hymns never before printed. Edited ... by ... J. D. Humphreys, etc”, p.232

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• At a press conference yesterday NASA announced that 2005 was the hottest year on record. It is so hot, and global warming is so bad, if the presidential election were held today, Al Gore would still lose.

  Jay Leno

  Years, Yesterday, Presidential

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• In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success.

  Robert Menzies

  Party, Remarkable, Contempt

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• Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and let me have but an unfettered press. I will defy them to encroach a hair's breadth upon the liberties of England.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Hair, Giving, House

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• A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position of leadership by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and the press of the external situation.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Leader, Desire, Inward

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• Desire presses ever forward unsubdued.

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspirational, Desire

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• I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, Country, Inspiration

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• Which direction do we take? The one prompted by the passions or the one indicated by the star which shines in your conscience? The Magi heard the answer: "In Bethlehem of Judea; for so it is written by the prophet" (Mt 2: 5), and, enlightened by these words, they chose to press forward to the very end.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Stars, Inspiration

  Pope Benedict XVI's address during The XX World Youth Day in Cologne, Germany, w2.vatican.va. August 18, 2005.

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• The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

  Grace Kelly

  Memorable, Freedom Of Speech, Way

  Attributed in "The Routledge dictionary of quotations" edited by Robert Andrews, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Books, (p. 209), 1987.

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• The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

  James F. Cooper

  Fire, Journalism, Excellent

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James F. Cooper, 1838.

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• A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Media Control, People, Cynical

  Joseph Pulitzer, Michael Edgar Pulitzer (1989). “Pulitzer Publishing Company: Newspapers and Broadcasting in the Public Interest”

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• There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press

  Mark Twain

  Law, Media Control, People

  Mark Twain (1992). “Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890”, p.726, Library of America

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• The media want to maintain their intimate relation to state power. They want to get leaks, they want to get invited to the press conferences. They want to rub shoulders with the Secretary of State, all that kind of business. To do that, you've got to play the game, and playing the game means telling their lies, serving as their disinformation apparatus.

  Noam Chomsky

  Lying, Mean, Media

  "Chronicles of Dissent: Interviews with David Barsamian". Book by David Barsamian, chomsky.info. 1992.

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