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“He’s not bright enough to be President. For a long time, anyone who questioned Bush’s ability to think was pointed to the opinion polls and told that discussing whether or not the President is borderline stupid was bad manners and counterproductive. Actually, that is the main problem with Bush. He neither reads, nor writes, nor speaks well. It turns out that a C average is not good enough for the Presidency.â€
— Molly Ivins, March 2004
From a public relations point of view, the Boston Tea Party in 1773 was an overt act staged to dramatize American resistance to the British authority.
— Edward Bernays (1891-1995)
Modern journalism by giving us the opinions of the uneducated, keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
— Oscar Wilde
Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.
— Aldous Huxley
The real news is bad news.
— Marshall McLuhan
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
The state, it cannot be too often repeated, does nothing and can give nothing which it does not take from somebody.
— William Graham Sumner (1840-1910), American economist, sociologist
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
— Seneca
Of all the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse. He will go to any length for it — risk fortune, character, reputation, life itself. And what do you think God has done? In a thousand years you would never guess. He has left it out of his heaven! Prayer takes its place.
— Mark Twain
We are the tools and vassals of the 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 (1830-1901), Editor of the New York Sun, replying to the toast “An independent press,” at a journalists’ gathering, Twilight Club, New York, April 12, 1893
