Dog Quote by H. L. Mencken Download Open image “Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.” — H. L. Mencken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dog Dog Lamp Journalism Journalism Politician Lamp Post Lamps Politician Politician Dog Politics Posts
Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Struggling for survival and relevance, we as a profession of political journalists and commentators have collectively debased our craft to the lowest common denominator—writing… — Kerry-Anne Walsh Copy Share Image
I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician. — Rajeev Shukla Copy Share Image
And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority - all authority - especially… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
The job of a journalist is to find out stuff. The job of the government - sometimes - is to keep stuff secret. There's… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
What journalism is really about-it's to monitor power and the centres of power. — Amira Hass Copy Share Image
The point of journalism is to hold people in positions of power accountable. — Ana Kasparian Copy Share Image
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my… — Jane Powell Copy Share Image
I'm 38 and I'm single, and I'm having my most intense and gratifying relationship with a dog. But we all learn about love in… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.” — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Most people are sensitized to animals through their cats and dogs, but for me it was a flounder. I used to go fishing with… — Dan Mathews Copy Share Image
A shoe dog is somebody that really loves shoes, and that was me. I was a runner... that became important to me, and it's… — Phil Knight Copy Share Image
“I rub the ears of my dog, my stupid goddam ruddy great dog that I never wanted but who hung around anyway and who… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image