Honest Journalism Quotes

#1. The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy.

Juan Williams

#2. Instead of respecting things, we want to use them for ourselves and if it is difficult to use them, we want to conquer them.

Shunryu Suzuki

#3. Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth
With such a full and unwithdrawing hand,
Covering the earth with odours, fruits, flocks,
Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable,
But all to please and sate the curious taste?

John Milton

#4. I love watching horror films because I don't get scared easily.

Esha Gupta

#5. No power on earth compares to a mother's tender prayers.

Edwin Arnold

#6. The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror, that is, he would look into it and see himself exactly as he is. Does that help?

J.K. Rowling

#7. No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herseif as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist.

Noam Chomsky

#8. Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests, of the people.

Alexander Hamilton

#9. I don't think people realize how fucking weird Christianity is if you're not raised around it. But, hey, it got me off time-out. And, who knows, maybe a billion white people can't be wrong and it's all really true.

Eddie Huang

#10. I try very hard to maintain the confidence of my sources by speaking candidly with them, honoring agreements about the use of our conversation, and practicing journalism in an honest and straightforward way.

John Harwood

#11. Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.

Julian Barnes

#12. When you paint, you forget everything except your object. When you are too much engrossed in it, you are lost in it. And when you are lost in it, your ego diminishes. And when the ego diminishes, love infinite appears.

Meher Baba

#13. I'm a Dom over subs. You have subs?" I shrugged a shoulder. "Are you available?" "Oh fuck!" He literally giggled, like he couldn't believe his good fortune cookies.

Lucian Bane

#14. Where his eyes should've been, there was only fire, empty sockets glowing with miniature nuclear explosions.

Rick Riordan

#15. Let's be honest about journalists: We find a lot of ways of being wrong.

E.J. Dionne Jr.

#16. Someone hurt my monster.

Laura Thalassa

#17. That being said, even if we cannot achieve it, journalism that strives toward objectivity and fairness has an important place in our society. So, too, does being honest and open when presenting our own opinions, as you do so well in your book

Sheri Fink

#18. When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.

Kate Bernheimer

#19. If you believe you are guilty and deserve to be punished, you are asking for it!

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#20. Frighteningly honest. What Anthony Bourdain did to the world of cooking in Kitchen Confidential, Leopold will do to the world of journalism. It's Sid & Nancy meets All the President's Men.

Rob Cohen

#21. Everything he's learned about the Civil Service tells him that having tea poured for you is one of the ferociously guarded signifiers of rank, like the grade of paintings from the Government Art Collection hung on your office wall, or the quality of your carpet.

Charles Stross