Exploitation Quote by Eugene V. Debs

“The press of the United States? It is a parasitic growth that battens on the capitalist class. Its function is to serve the established…

— Jack London

“A press governed solely by the desire to avoid all critical news that might reflect negatively upon dominant class interests reveals itself as an…

— Michael Parenti

“In democracies, by contrast, the propaganda of the press and public opinion relentlessly promised servants that they, too, could reach the pinnacles of society…

— Alain de Botton

“do not believe this was the result our forefathers envisioned when they fought so hard to establish freedom of the press. Such freedom should…

— Ben Carson

“preachers and modernist educators and discontented newspapermen and farm agitators—maybe they’ll worry at first, but they’ll get caught up in the web of propaganda,…

— Sinclair Lewis

“the job of the press is to disprove the falsehoods that power invariably disseminates to protect itself.”

— Glenn Greenwald

“But the lesson of those years is that the ruling class can't be relied upon to redistribute wealth and power.”

— Selina Todd

“All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy…

— Vladimir Lenin

“In every instance that I have known of with confrontation with the government and the press, the press was always right. So keep it…

— Jimmy Carter

[Restraints on the press] in all ages, have debauched morals, depressed liberty, shackled religion, supported despotism, and deluged the scaffold with blood.

— James Madison

In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.

— Oliver Goldsmith

“In my judgment, we suffer quite as much from exaggerated, hysterical, and untruthful or slanderous statements in the press as from any wrongdoing by…

— Peter Hartshorn