Quotes by Journalists - Page 16

The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.
Albert Camus
An appeal is when ye ask wan court to show its contempt for another court.
Finley Peter Dunne
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
H.L. Mencken
Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone.
Ambrose Bierce
No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not the Supreme Court follows the election returns.
Finley Peter Dunne
Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw.
Ambrose Bierce
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned or of dictionary-makers but is something arising out of the work needs ties joys affections tastes of long generations of humanity and has its bases broad and low close to the ground.
Walt Whitman
For as labor cannot produce without the use of land the denial of the equal right to use of land is necessarily the denial of the right of labor to its own produce.
Henry George
The first problem for all of us men and women is not to learn but to unlearn.
Gloria Steinem
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
Robert Lynd
Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.
H.L. Mencken
It was thy kiss Love that made me immortal.
Margaret Fuller
Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think not what you think.
Arthur Brisbane
The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth - truth which tends to make mankind wiser and thus happier.
Horace Greeley
Whether on the scaffold high. Or on the battle-field we die Oh what matter when for Erin dear we fall.
T. D. Sullivan
The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas.
Christopher Morley
The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas and all we've been producing is footnotes.
Theodore H. White
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus
Inspiration does not come like a bolt nor is it kinetic energy striving but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time.
Brenda Ueland
Trust your gut.
Barbara Walters
The innocent is the person who explains nothing.
Albert Camus
Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing. Advance with it!
Guiseppe Mazzini
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
Arthur Koestler
Ignoramus: a person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.
Ambrose Bierce
Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.
Brooks Atkinson
To say that an idea is fashionable is to say I think that it has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.
Murray Kempton
The ability to laugh at life is right at the top with love and communication in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel so that we gain distance and through laughter relief.
Sara Davidson
Acquaintance n: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from but not well enough to lend to.
Ambrose Bierce
When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly for this reason that I don't mix much in literary circles because I know from experience that once I have met and spoken to anyone I shall never again be able to feel any intellectual brutality towards him even when I feel I ought to - like the Labour M.P.s who get patted on the back by dukes and are lost forever more.
George Orwell
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
Albert Camus
It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
George Dennison Prentice
True vision is always twofold. It involves emotional comprehensions as well as physical perception.
Ross Parmenter
Hope is a very unruly emotion.
Gloria Steinem
Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.
Ambrose Bierce
The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.
Norman Cousins
A man has honour if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient unprofitable or dangerous to do so.
Walter Lippmann
Would that ... a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honour become identical.
Margaret Fuller
People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
Richard J. Needham
I am a member of the rabble in good standing.
Westbrook Pegler
Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed the only animal that is never satisfied.
Henry George
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.
George Orwell
It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off fr'm th' angels.
Finley Peter Dunne
History n: an account mostly false of events mostly unimportant which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves and soldiers mostly fools.
Ambrose Bierce
Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.
Louis Fischer
The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.
Hendrik Willem van Loon
History is a vast early warning system.
Norman Cousins
Heroes are created by popular demand sometimes out of the scantiest materials . . . such as the apple that William Tell never shot the ride that Paul Revere never finished the flag that Barbara Frietchie never waved.
Gerald Johnson
When the heroes go off the stage the clowns come on.
Heinrich Heine
When I want a peerage I shall buy one like an honest man.
Lord Northcliffe
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful kindly things for others.
B.C. Forbes
Behold! I do not give lectures on a little charity. When I give I give myself.
Walt Whitman
To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.
Margaret Bourke-White
Orthodox criticism ... is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented having the most imagination and sympathy these are the first ones to get killed off.
Brenda Ueland
What its children become that will the community become.
Suzannea LaFollette
A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.
Barbara Ehrenreich
If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims.
Liz Carpenter
People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning man until they learned whether he fell in through his own fault or not.
Sydney J. Harris
Reform is born of need not pity.
Rebecca Harding Davis
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
George Prentice
When two people decide to get a divorce it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another but a sign that they have at last begun to.
Helen Rowland