Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Perhaps the most obvious political effect of controlled news is the
advantage it gives powerful people in getting their issues on the
political agenda and defining those issues in ways likely to influence
their resolution."

~ W. Lance Bennett  

"Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do..."

~ Italo Calvino  

"Historians and economists are very good at
creating and perpetuating myths that justify increasing
the power placed in the hands of government."

~ Reuven Brenner  

~ Commission On Freedom Of The Press  

"A newspaper has three things to do.
One is to amuse, another is to entertain
and the rest is to mislead."

~ Ernest Bevin  

"We do nothing controversial.
We're not in the investigative business.
Our only concern is giving editorial support for our ad projects."

~ Houston Chronicle  

"We must win the common people in every corner.
This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools;
and by open, hearty behavior, show condescension,
popularity, and toleration of their prejudices,
which we shall at leisure root out and dispel."

~ Adam Weishaupt  

"The ultimate result
of shielding men
from the effects of folly
is to fill the world with fools."

~ Herbert Spencer  

"The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act as if there were no price, even when there are ruinous prices -- paid by others."

~ Thomas Sowell  

"Every 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 Lewis  

"No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance."

~ Alan Bullock  

"The uncontested absurdities of today
are the accepted slogans of tomorrow."

~ Ayn Rand  

"People everywhere confuse,
What they read in newspapers with news."

~ A. J. Liebling  

"Our job is to give people not what they want,
but what we decide they ought to have."

~ Richard Salant  

"The man who never looks into a newspaper
is better informed than he who reads them;
inasmuch as he who knows nothing is
nearer to the truth than he whose mind
is filled with falsehoods and errors."

~ Thomas Jefferson