John Swinton Famous Quotes
"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
John Swinton Quotations
Evil deeds do not prosper the slow man catches up with the swift.
Homer
I don't even butter my bread. I consider that cooking.
Katherine Cebrian
Never give advice unless asked.
German proverb
"The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them-thus preserving the system."
Quentin
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
Oscar Wilde
When you have a dream you've got to grab it and never let go.
Carol Burnett
"My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope."
Ovid
One swallow does not make a summer.
Aristotle
"You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind--not all of a sudden, perhaps not in one swift and sweeping act of achievement--but you can do it gradually, day by day and play by play, if you want to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time."
William E Holler
There is value in everybody's gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.
Tori Amos