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“In the war zone of arguments, debates, criticism - silence is the safe house.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“As we watched, the regulations imposed by our government, churches, and press; combined to establish our country’s new internal warfare. Fought on the podiums,… — James W. Scott Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“an army of incompetents, poltroons, political cronies, and victims—always there are the victims whom the others send to slaughter in their stead—” — John Jakes Copy Share Image
“I sat for a moment and again looked out the window of my organization’s unmarked headquarters in Old Town Alexandria, the building aggressively ugly, 1970s ugly. I stared at a wedge of grass, an antique store, a Starbucks and a few bushes in a parking strip. The bushes lined up in a staggered fashion toward the Masonic Temple, like they’d… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share
“That’s the trouble with having a “click” as Mary Wren might call it. When you define yourself by walls, who’s in, who’s out. The… — Ruth Ware Copy Share Image
The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
“it may be added that the press is apt to favour the enemy, for the war correspondents are generally all on the side of… — Charles Edward Callwell Copy Share Image
“We find ourselves constantly in battle in the vast human theaters of conflict.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“It was terribly risky, maybe even hopeless. But one or two properly armed, well-trained soldiers could hold off an undisciplined mob indefinitely. Shughart and… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
“Thomas Paine’s The Crisis—“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
“Steele gave the unapologetic impression that he could break you with his bare hands if it weren’t for his strict devotion to Jesus and… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
“In April 1967, Johnson had dispatched General Creighton Abrams to Vietnam as Westy’s deputy. Abrams, a famous tank commander in World War II, had… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
“Westin celebrated the New Year by shooting off some hand flares. Orders were “no fireworks,” but you couldn’t expect several hundred thousand men in… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
“the Tet surprise was regarded by Westy as proof of Hanoi’s weakness. Nowhere in his understanding of the war was there room for the… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
“Hanoi’s leaders were virtuoso songbirds of propaganda. They lived in a bubble. There were no voices of dissent in their society to check or… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
“The fifty-three-year-old former Eagle Scout from South Carolina didn’t drink, smoke, or swear; the most colorful expletive in his vocabulary was “dad gum.”7 He… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
“The smallest pleasure, like a mouthful of canned fruit or the chance to bathe in an ice-cold river, was a luxury, something to be… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
“There were none of the card games marines usually played in downtimes. They were too tired to concentrate, and poker was serious business.” — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
“Opposition to the war was becoming fashionable. Popular figures—intellectuals, athletes, musicians—stepped up to announce their opposition” — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
“To me the way they were used, particularly the way their idealism and loyalty were exploited by leaders who themselves had lost faith in… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
