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The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
WikiLeaks has probably produced more scoops in its short life than the Washington Post has in the past 30 years.
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
The worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces, the more his production increases in power and range. The worker becomes an ever cheaper commodity the more commodities he creates. With the increasing value of the world of things proceeds in direct proportion to the devaluation of the world of men. Labor produces not only commodities, it produces itself and the worker as a commodity, and does so in the proportion in which it produces commodities generally.
The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his 'natural superiors' and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous 'cash payment'.
All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract, or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved, commitment to a scenario.
We are no longer in a state of growth, we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate.
Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
I think that the culture in the United States is to push people until they drop and now we're doing it to our children.
Accidents happen every day. And not every driver that hits a pedestrian is charged with murder.
A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children. We shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration, but the honing is uniform.
The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.
If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
An ordinary person can simply walk into a shop and feel that they can participate in helping the needy by simply buying a perfume.
This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.