Newspaper Quotes

The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.

Journalism largely consists in saying “Lord Jones Dead” to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

America’s next great newspaper is a wonderful idea – but it will have to be published on the web and not on paper, and as a new style web newspaper, not one of today’s conventional web-based losers. It is coming – and (in the nature of things) it will redefine the news story and the […]

What the proprietorship of these newspapers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility – the prerogative of the harlot through the ages.

The Times is speechless, and it takes three columns to express its speechlessness.

The only way a reporter should look at a politician is down.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.

It’s always darkest before dawn. So if you’re going to steal the neighbor’s newspaper, that’s the time to do it.

Say anything you like about me, but spell my name right.