Karl Kraus
Playwright, Journalist
"Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics."
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Newspapers
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Che Guevara
Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader
"We must do away with all newspapers. A revolution cannot be accomplished with freedom of the press."
William Faulkner
Novelist, Poet, Playwright
"The best fiction is far more true than any journalism."
Assata Shakur
Activist
"People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Politician
"Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else."
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"Someone called all the newspapers in New York and told them I'd died. I've been told by almost everyone it was an ex-wife - I've had a few so it's hard to pinpoint which one - but who knows for sure?"
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"That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only."
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"Most British newspapers now have more columns than the Acropolis"
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"Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose heads are filled with half-truths and lies."
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"Nothing can now be believed that is seen in a newspaper."
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"I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels."
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"There is no substitute for a local newspaper that is doing its job."
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"If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter"
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"Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers."
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"If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed."
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"Those who want to be offended don't have the right to try and close down the newspaper that offends them."
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"There is not one shred of evidence that the Internet has had any downward influence on North American or European newspaper circulation."
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"News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens."
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"It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers."
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"In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer."
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"I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things."
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"The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them."
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"I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one."
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"Newspapers are the second hand of history."
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"It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that."
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