Press quotes

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◆ The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

- Malcom X100

◆ The liberty of the press is most generally approved when it takes liberties with the other fellow, and leaves us alone

- Edgar Watson Howe99

◆ The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being

- Thomas Jefferson99

◆ Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of [achieving] a free society.

- Felix Frankfurter99

◆ The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.

- Alexis De Tocqueville99

◆ The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span

- Karl Kraus99

◆ The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses

- Vladimir Lenin99

◆ All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.

- Marshall McLuhan99

◆ If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free

- Franklin D Roosevelt99

◆ The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. [For] to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

- Warren Buffett99

◆ Recollect your thoughts don't get caught up in the mix, cause the media is full of dirty tricks

- Tupac Shakur99

◆ There can be no press freedom when journalists exist in conditions of corruption, poverty and fear.

- Aidan White99

◆ Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.

- Hugo Black99

◆ Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.

- Corazon Aquino99

◆ The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools

- John Dewey99