Quotes About William Randolph Hearst

#1. In the nineteen-thirties, one in four Americans got their news from William Randolph Hearst, who lived in a castle and owned twenty-eight newspapers in nineteen cities.

Jill Lepore

#2. It's very much related to the American tycoon. To William Randolph Hearst, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, that whole stratum of American acquisitive evil. Monopolistic, acquisitive evil. Ugly evil. The ugly American. The ugly American at his ugly worst. That's exactly what it is.

Allen Ginsberg

#3. Ben Franklin said:
"Early to bed and early to rise
Make a man healthy wealthy and wise"
Lately I have read the advice given to William Randolph Hearst, when a young man, by his father:
"Go downtown at noon and rob the other fellows of what they have made during the morning.

E. Haldeman-Julius

#4. When free discussion is denied, hardening of the arteries of democracy has set in, free institutions are but a lifeless form, and the death of the republic is at hand.

William Randolph Hearst

#5. We hold that the greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong, that in the exercise thereof people have an inviolable right to express their unbridled thoughts on all topics and personalities, being liable only for the use of that right.

William Randolph Hearst

#6. Users of marijuana become STIMULATED as they inhale the drug and are LIKELY TO DO ANYTHING. Most crimes of violence in this section, especially in country districts are laid to users of that drug.

William Randolph Hearst

#7. You can crush a man with journalism.

William Randolph Hearst

#8. My experience has proved that a man who is running for office, and is not willing to make his honest opinions known to the public, either has no honest opinions or is not honest about them.

William Randolph Hearst

#9. A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

William Randolph Hearst

#10. All work and no play may make Jim a dull boy, but no work and all play makes Jim all kinds of a jackass.

William Randolph Hearst

#11. It is a good thing that women are so easily manipulated. Otherwise, most of us wouldn't be here.

William Randolph Hearst

#12. We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.

William Randolph Hearst

#13. News is what people don't want you to print. Everything thing else is ads.

William Randolph Hearst

#14. If you want to see the acceptable face of capitalism, go out to an oil rig in the North Sea.

William Randolph Hearst

#15. In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.

William Randolph Hearst

#16. British Conservatives base their entire approach to politics on the rule of law, and rightly so.

William Randolph Hearst

#17. You must keep your mind on the objective, not on the obstacle.

William Randolph Hearst

#18. We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others.

William Randolph Hearst

#19. Putting out a newspaper without promotion is like winking at a girl in the dark
well-intentioned, but ineffective.

William Randolph Hearst

#20. If you ask, "Am I my brother's keeper?" The answer is, "You are.

William Randolph Hearst

#21. Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.

William Randolph Hearst

#22. I do not think that any man should be attacked because of his race or religion, or that he should be immune from attack because of race or religion.

William Randolph Hearst

#23. It is the unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism, but one should not suggest that the whole of British industry consists of practices of this kind.

William Randolph Hearst

#24. Most criminals are not born; they are made ... What the State really punishes in a criminal is often its own neglect, its own failure to do its duty to the citizen.

William Randolph Hearst

#25. The distribution of wealth is just as important as its creation.

William Randolph Hearst

#26. Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.

William Randolph Hearst

#27. If you make a product good enough ... the public will make a path to your door, says the philosopher. But if you want the public in sufficient numbers, you would better construct a highway. Advertising is that highway.

William Randolph Hearst

#28. Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.

William Randolph Hearst

#29. The coming of the motion picture was as important as that of the printing press.

William Randolph Hearst

#30. You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.

William Randolph Hearst