5 Quotes Tagged: newspaper

Up till now it has been thought that the growth of the Christian myths during the Roman Empire was possible only because printing was not yet invented. Precisely the contrary. The daily press and the telegraph, which in a moment spreads inventions over the whole earth, fabricate more myths (and the bourgeois cattle believe and enlarge upon them) in one day than could have formerly been done in a century.

Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.

The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

The power of the
journalist is great, but he is entitled neither to respect nor admiration because of
that power unless it is used aright.

A community narrows down and grows dreadful ignorant when it is shut up to its own affairs, and gets no knowledge of the outside world except from a cheap, unprincipled paper.