"We must express the view, based on our……" — Conrad Black
"We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The profession is heavily cluttered with aged hacks toiling through a miasma of mounting decrepitude and often alcoholism, and even more so with arrogant and abrasive youngsters who substitute 'commitment' for insight. The product of their impassioned intervention in public affairs is more often confusion than lucidity."
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47 Quotes by Conrad Black
Conrad Black has 47 quotes on this site.
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I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion,…
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The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that…
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Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their…
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All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.
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Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive…
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I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to.
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I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try…
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Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel.
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Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the…
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For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders…
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The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder…
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The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it…
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More Abrasive Quotes
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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Too often it's not the most creative guys or the smartest. Instead, it's the ones who are best at playing…
— Carl Icahn
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What really kills me—it really rips me up—is when people think I’m abrasive, inconsiderate or ungrateful because I don’t go…
— Kristen Stewart
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The Jews are just a very aggressive and abrasive and obnoxious personality.
— Richard M. Nixon
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I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a…
— Paul Thomas Anderson
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Strength on its own in a woman is quite abrasive and not terribly attractive all the time,
— Stella McCartney
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Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive,…
— Simon Mawer
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Democracy destroys itself because it abuses its right to freedom and equality. Because it teaches its citizens to consider audacity…
— Isocrates
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There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though…
— John F. Kennedy
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The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.
— Marshall McLuhan
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At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40…
— Isaac Asimov
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In the beginning, New York and I had kind of a love-hate relationship. It seemed so abrasive compared to Europe.…
— Shalom Harlow
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