Thursday 14 March 2013

News / Newspapers - Quotes

A newspaper is not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, it is also a collective organiser. - Vladimir Lenin

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. - Malcom X

It is necessary, if one would read aright, that he should read at least two newspapers, representing both sides of important subjects. - Henry Ward Beecher

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers another. - G. K. Chestserton

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment. - Charles Lamb

Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people. - Henry Ward Beecher

Newspapers widen the sphere of our sympathies. They make their readers enter into the joys and sorrows of thousands of whom they would else know nothing, and for whom they would otherwise care nothing. - Christian Nestell Bovee

Nobody likes the man who brings bad news. - Sophocles

One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse among the people certain desirable sentiments; and the third is fearlessly to expose popular defects. - Mahatma Gandhi

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages. - Spiro Agnew

Today’s journalism is obsessed with the kinds of things that tend to preoccupy thirteen-year-old boys: sports, sex, crime, and narcissism. - Steven Stark

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. - Ben Hecht

We expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read. - Abraham Lincoln

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