Quotes About Joseph Pulitzer

#1. They call me the father of illustrated journalism. What folly! I never thought any such thing. I had a small newspaper, which had been dead for years, and I was trying in every way to build up its circulation. What could I use for bait? A picture, of course.

Joseph Pulitzer

#2. The distinctive crimes of this generation are crimes of subtlety and finesse.
- ALEXANDER S. BACON 1908

J.M. Carlisle

#3. I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words.

Joseph Pulitzer

#4. Travel is so important in its capacity to expand the mind. It's exciting to start as young as possible - you get to see how other cultures live, challenge your senses, and try different cuisines.

Natalie Dormer

#5. My especial object is to help the poor; the rich can help themselves. I believe in self-made men.

Joseph Pulitzer

#6. There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.

Joseph Pulitzer

#7. Life is very tough and fragile at the same time, it never backs down or surrenders, but will break open to reveal its beauty and ugliness. As a evening primrose that blooms in the flooding moonlight, just before being trampled upon underfoot by the four-legged frost of the night.

Anthony Liccione

#8. I want to talk to a nation, not to a select committee.

Joseph Pulitzer

#9. An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.

Joseph Pulitzer

#10. Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.

Joseph Pulitzer

#11. I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training.

Joseph Pulitzer

#12. We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

Mary Catherine Bateson

#13. The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style.

Camille Paglia

#14. The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#15. Newspapers should have no friends.

Joseph Pulitzer

#16. There's nobody on a normal income who can afford to live anywhere centrally, so everything becomes displaced and decentralized. The city [of London] becomes incongruent. It doesn't have any coherence anymore.

Alasdair MacLean

#17. War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula

George S. Patton

#18. The increasingly thoughtful child can see the whole horribly upset world and would be understandably totally bewildered and deeply troubled by it

Jeremy Griffith

#19. Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it, and above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.

Joseph Pulitzer

#20. But perhaps nothing speaks more clearly for the absurdities of English pronunciation than that the word for the study of pronunciation in English, orthoepy, can itself be pronounced two ways.

Bill Bryson

#21. The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves ...

Wendell Berry

#22. Virtue is the giving of undeserved.

Ayn Rand

#23. What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy.

Joseph Pulitzer

#24. I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people.

Joseph Pulitzer

#25. A newspaper that is true to its purpose concerns itself not only with the way things are
but with the way they ought to be.

Joseph Pulitzer

#26. Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's in regard to money.

William Shenstone

#27. Money is the great power today. Men sell their souls for it. Women sell their bodies for it. Others worship it. The money power has grown so great that the issue of all issues is whether the corporation shall rule this country or the country shall again rule the corporations.

Joseph Pulitzer

#28. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself.

Joseph Pulitzer