Muckraking Quotes

#1. Anderson's muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works.

Thomas Griffith

#2. He was, as the novelist and muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair wrote, "willing by deliberate and shameful lies, made out of whole cloth, to stir nations to enmity and drive them to murderous war.

Stephen Kinzer

#3. My colleague and I are journalists ... Not of the muckraking variety, I hasten to assure you! Corruption is a necessary and time-honored concomitant of any functioning government, which we support wholeheartedly.

Michael Swanwick

#4. The public is a hibernating bear, hard to awaken and fond of honey.

Mason Cooley

#5. The cigar made its traverse from one side of Harry King to the other. He was known to dote on his daughters, who he felt had rather suffered from having a father who needed to take two baths just to get dirty.

Terry Pratchett

#6. you couldn't coach speed.

Paul Tremblay

#7. We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.

Robert Bloch

#8. In today's society, the animals known as Homo sapiens have become conditioned to elicit the same kind of fearful response whenever the bell of Islam is rung.

Abhijit Naskar

#9. I think my entire songwriting catalog reflects where I was in my life at the time. I capture whatever moment I am experiencing in life.

Rayvon Owen

#10. 2010 Foursquare Mayor Of The Year

Baratunde Thurston

#11. We have been raised to a height that is unattainable and unimaginable for a natural man.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#12. I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#13. Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the least inclination to be well, we should not be sick.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. There are very few good ways to get publicity for a dictionary.

Erin McKean

#15. I intend to get out of here. It can't last forever. Others have thought such things, in bad times before this, and they were always right, they did get out one way or another, and it didn't last forever. Although for them it may have lasted all the forever they had.

Margaret Atwood

#16. Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine's not so great.

Anthony Bourdain

#17. What my father gave me more than anything else is great tutoring and a great brain, frankly. You know, my father's brother was a top person at MIT, went to MIT, graduated from MIT, was a teacher at MIT, a professor at MIT, a great engineer. I mean, you know, I have very good genes.

Donald Trump