Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Scheer

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Persisting social crisis, the emergence of a charismatic personality, and the exploitation of mass media to obtain public confidence would be the steppingstones in the piecemeal transformation of the United States into a highly controlled society.

Sandra Cisneros

This is the age of fear and so many of us feel afraid to speak out about what has happened to our lives in the wake of 9/11. Television promotes the world as a scary place for the United States and this justifies peeling away every element of privacy we had before. The media is monopolized so we don't even hear a lot of dissent about this new era.

Tim Henman

Our media is possibly the worst in the world.

Leon Wieseltier

Incorruptibility by money is the old story, ... Now it's incorruptibility by media.

Jose Antonio Vargas

To me, it's just that social media is allowing people to be in charge of their own narratives.

Jon Krakauer

Short form media is reductionist by nature.

Jon Corzine

Frankly, sharing a media market with Chuck Schumer is like sharing a banana with a monkey. Take a little bite of it, and he will throw his own feces at you.

Joichi Ito

Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.

Stewart Brand

I was a glassy-eyed undergraduate. It was a pillar of local civilization.

Rose Macaulay

what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it as a standard, almost synonymous with civilization?

Mark Twain

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities

Henry Ford

In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.

Mahatma Gandhi

A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation.

Mahatma Gandhi

Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'

Mahatma Gandhi

My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization.

William Safire

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'

Richard M. Nixon

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Walter Cronkite

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

Will Rogers

We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?

Zora Neale Hurston

The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.

Michael Ignatieff

In politics, there's a kind of literal-mindedness. It's what you say, not what you mean, and you have to say only what you mean.

Richie Furay

I'm conservative in my thought. I'm conservative in my theology. I'm conservative in my politics.

Marion Marechal-Le Pen

If I went into politics, it's because I grew up in a political atmosphere.

Jeffrey Archer

I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right.