2022 May 13
"The majority of us are for free speech
when it deals with subjects concerning
which we have no intense feelings."
"Censorship is telling a man
he can't have a steak
just because a baby can't chew it."
2022 May 12
"As Hitler showed us, a press suppressed does not make a recovery.
As Lenin indicated, a press controlled does not revert to a critic’s role.
As history reminds us, free speech surrendered is rarely recovered."
"Books won’t stay banned.
They won’t burn.
Ideas won’t go to jail.
In the long run of history,
the censor and the inquisitor have always lost.
The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
The source of better ideas is wisdom."
"Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society."
2022 May 11
"The media can now wistfully reflect on their glory days of the 1970's when the majority of people actually bought into their bullshit."
"The idea that political speech had to be protected at any cost dates to Colonial days, during which the press and the public were not allowed to express themselves freely on matters of public concern. The King and his government often used restrictive measures, such as licensing of printing presses and the doctrine of seditious libel, to silence unfavorable public comment."
"Truth and news are not the same thing."
2022 May 10
"[Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do,
to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own."
"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."
"Every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered...History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right."
2022 May 09
"There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech or witty saying, it is a literal fact, very momentous to us in these times."
"Private opinion is weak,
but public opinion is almost omnipotent."
"I would not be fooled by the old myth that reporting is about objectivity. Deciding what is news is the most subjective of acts and it is probably the most important thing that we do."
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