Anarchy Quote by Janet Malcolm Download Open image “The journalist must do his work in a kind of deliberately induced state of moral anarchy.” — Janet Malcolm ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anarchy Journalist Kind State Work
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the griefs and shames of others. — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals. — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
“(...) Taking the journalist's vow of impartiality and objectivity was not unlike joining an order of monks and spending the rest of your life… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution. The sort of things that are working against him are the concentration of the press in the hands of a few rich men, the grip of monopoly on radio and the films, the unwillingness of the… — George Orwell Copy Share
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. A journalist is someone who looks at the world… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“the easy bit – passing the material to sympathetic journalists – was proving tricky.” — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
The journalist's job is to get the story by breaking into their offices, by bribing, by seducing people, by lying, by anything else to… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
“Journalism gave me another tool of exploration, another way of unveiling the laws that bound my body... And with journalism, I could directly ask… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I do think that there are gray lines of morality in a newsroom, when it comes to some stories. The best-intentioned journalist still has… — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is. — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
“The writer ultimately tires of the subject's self-serving story, and substitutes a story of his own.” — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
Society mediates between the extremes of, on the one hand, intolerably strict morality and, on the other, dangerously anarchic permissiveness through an unspoken agreement whereby we are given leave to bend the rules of the strictest morality, provided we do so quietly and discreetly. Hypocrisy is the grease that keeps society functioning in an agreeable way, by allowing for human… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share
Something seems to happen to people when they meet a journalist, and what happens is exactly the opposite of what one would expect. One… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a representation of the writer, the ‘I’ of journalism is connected to the writer only in a tenuous way—the way, say, that Superman is connected to Clark Kent. The journalistic ‘I’ is an overreliable narrator, a functionary to whom… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share
The journalistic 'I' is an overreliable narrator, a functionary to whom crucial tasks of narration and argument and tone have been entrusted, an ad… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
“The subject of a piece of writing has not suffered the tension and anxiety endured by the subject of the "Eichmann experiment" (as it… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the griefs and shames of others. — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
I'm in a business where there's complete anarchy. You can't control it - you can only react to it. The control that people traditionally… — Martin Sorrell Copy Share Image
The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in land, money and idea patents, erecting tariff barriers to protect monopolies from foreign competition, and taxing laborers to subsidize rich farmers and privileged manufacturers. Then we create "social workers, " etc., to care for them and thereby establish… — Laurance Labadie Copy Share
The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is used for… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
So far I'm still standing on 'Sons of Anarchy' but all the rest of the people on the show have me in their crosshairs… — Mitch Pileggi Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
I think that if you run a big company, you've got to, four or five times a year, just say, 'Hey team, look, here's… — Jeffrey R. Immelt Copy Share Image
Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell… — Daniel Morgan Copy Share Image
What a comfort it is to feel that amid the chaos and anarchy which sweep the surface, God is holding fast the foundations on… — F.B. Meyer Copy Share Image
“An anarchist government somehow creates an impression in the hearts of citizens that no one cares.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Would you like to do something good for the future of the human race; well, start killing some of its powerful members. — William C. Brown Copy Share Image