"A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in……" — Joseph Pulitzer
"A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself."
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Joseph Pulitzer
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19 Quotes by Joseph Pulitzer
Joseph Pulitzer has 19 quotes on this site.
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Money is the great power today. Men sell their souls for it. Women sell their bodies for it. Others worship…
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Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.
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Iwill always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong…
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Newspapers should have no friends.
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I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already…
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I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it…
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An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that…
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The Post-Dispatch will serve no party but the people; be no organ of Republicanism, but the organ of truth; will…
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Every issue of the paper presents an opportunity and a duty to say something courageous and true; to rise above…
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There is room in this great and growing city for a journal that is not only cheap but bright, not…
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My especial object is to help the poor; the rich can help themselves. I believe in self-made men.
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A journalist is the lookout on the bridge of the ship of state. He notes the passing sail, the little…
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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the…
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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
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Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States - a nation with a spiritual foundation and…
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If you're going to pick a book and you want to base a system of government around it, why not…
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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
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'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.
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Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven…
— Johannes Brahms
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It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority,…
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