Quotes About Democracy And Journalism

#1. I don't personally feel that I have to save democracy and journalism.

Katharine Weymouth

#2. Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.

Andrew Vachss

#3. Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.

Aristotle.

#4. When I write Superboy and other DC characters, it's about boiling them down to core concepts.

Jeff Lemire

#5. If democracy is the voice of the people, then the AP is its stenographer.

Peter Arnett

#6. We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.

Alice Miller

#7. Consumers know precisely what's wrong with advertising. Be it TV or print or whatever, they know that advertising is never creative enough ... never as witty, inspiring, sophisticated, entertaining and downright likeable as they would like it to be.

Phil Dusenberry

#8. A wise word is more rare than the green emerald, and one can find the word of wisdom even amongst the slave girls making grain.

Barbara De Angelis

#9. Without a serious study of journalism, there can be no understanding of citizenship, democracy, or community.

Roy Peter Clark

#10. Investigative reporting is the bone structure without which the journalistic body collapses. The Center for Public Integrity's constant and consistently enterprising investigative work is an invaluable contribution not only to journalism, but to society and to a healthy democracy

Alma Guillermoprieto

#11. The subjugation of news by entertainment seriously harms our democracy: It leads to dysfunctional journalism that fails to inform the people. And when the people are not informed, they cannot hold government accountable when it is incompetent, corrupt, or both.

Al Gore

#12. It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.

David Brock

#13. We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we'll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we'll not save democracy from its own inertia.

Bill Moyers

#14. I really wasn't very involved politically with anything up until that point. Then I started reading about the second Palestinian Intifada, and I spoke to friends in activist and journalism circles. Then, somehow by complete luck, I ended up at Democracy Now.

Sharif Abdel Kouddous

#15. The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.

Bill Moyers

#16. When words lose their meaning and their capacity to bind those who use them, neither democracy nor the rule of law can long survive.

Austin Sarat

#17. I don't believe that there's such a thing as objectivity in much of journalism, but I think there is a serious effort to and a regard for facts and into taking that stuff seriously is very important to the public discourse and it's very important to democracy.

Jann Wenner

#18. The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.

Walter Lippmann

#19. There is no democracy without journalism.

Scott Pelley

#20. I didn't know growing up what I wanted to do. I finally settled on broadcast journalism as a way to satisfy the urge to perform and also do something important, which is to give people in a democracy information to make good decisions.

Mort Crim

#21. Journalism, like democracy, is not something that is achieved. It is a work in progress, and not every day is as good as the last.

John Maxwell Hamilton

#22. There was a beautiful princess with a prince kissing her lips only the prince was totally ugly

Scott Westerfeld

#23. I got an extra hour's nap.

Bobby Jones

#24. Loss of mental function, taste for Frank Sinatra music, and similar degenerative effects.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#25. Dear Miss Bowen, he begins. He hopes that he will receive another letter in turn.

Erin Morgenstern

#26. When political authority and journalism colluded with one another, democracy lost its ability to critique and cleanse itself, allowing a deadly infection to take root.

Yoshiki Tanaka

#27. It would be easy to descend into despair, not only about the state of journalism, but the future of American democracy. But giving up is not an option. There is too much at stake.

Laurie Garrett

#28. Oh, for the love of God, Ella. You're going to make me come right now." I grunted, trying to steel myself and last a little longer. I could feel my own tension building and knew I wouldn't last long. "Screw it," I said. "I'll just fuck you again later." - Jonathan di Luca

R. Matthews

#29. Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#30. Evidently there is difficulty, real difficulty, in learning a foreign language at all, as if it sprinkled all the sweet flavor of the Greek mythical stories with a foul taste.

Augustine Of Hippo

#31. The fact that the Vatican is concluding a treaty with the new Germany means the acknowledgement of the National Socialist state by the Catholic Church. This treaty shows the whole world clearly and unequivocally that the assertion that National Socialism is hostile to religion is a lie.

Adolf Hitler