To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. — James Madison
We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books. — Robert Maynard Hutchins
We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books. — Robert M. Hutchins
The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses. — Vladimir Lenin
A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure. — Arthur Baer
Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe. — Thomas Jefferson
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad. — Albert Camus
I owe all my knowledge to the German inventor, Johannes Gutenberg! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
It is the Press which has corrupted our political morals - and it is to the Press we must look for the means of our political regeneration. — Alexander Hamilton
Short Printing Press Quotes
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. — A. J. Liebling
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations. — George Orwell
The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things. — G. Gordon Liddy
News is what people don't want you to print. Everything thing else is ads. — William Randolph Hearst
The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. — Hugo Black
They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. — James G. Watt
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it. — Grace Kelly
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. — Napoleon
Printing Press Image Quotes
Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Print Media Quotes
You have to understand the separation between what exists in the print media and what exists in reality. It's important to never lose track of reality. — Jared Kushner
The mainstream media has its own agenda. They do not want to print the facts. They have an agenda, they have a slant, they have a bias. It is outrageous to me. — Curt Weldon
I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version. — Bill Gates
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media since the printing press and the telephone. — Howard Rheingold
The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. — Benjamin Disraeli
Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops. — Joe Scarborough
Press forward. Do not stop. Do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on the air or into print. — Bob Woodward
The time is long overdue for a massive flooding of the earth with the Book of Mormon for the many reasons which the Lord has given. In this age of electronic media and mass distribution of the printed word, God will hold us accountable if we do not now move the Book of Mormon in a monumental way. — Ezra Taft Benson
I think that you hear more opposition to the government in Venezuela than you would here in the United States. That's in the TV, in the radio and in the print media. — Medea Benjamin
I think track is still one of the most exciting participant sports, but we haven't been able to capitalize on that excitement through television and the print media. — Bob Beamon
Growing you own food is like printing your own money!
The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost. — Ben Bernanke
The government can't create jobs; they'll destroy jobs trying to do it. The government doesn't have any money; all they have is a printing press. We need to free markets to create jobs; if the government wants to help, they should reduce their burden on the economy. — Peter Schiff
One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves. — Diane Wakoski
Stock dealers and banking companies, by the aid of a paper system, are enriching themselves to the ruin of our country, and swaying the government by their possession of the printing presses, which their wealth commands and by any other means, not always honorable to the character of our countrymen. — Thomas Jefferson
The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander. — T. E. Lawrence
We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know, and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows. — Katharine Graham
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few. — John Masefield
Ink is the blood of the printing-press. — John Milton
Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom of print," it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It is production that creates purchasing power, not the printing press! — Peter Schiff
Paper money is made of cotton, and I'm long cotton, by the way. One reason I'm long cotton is because Dr. Bernanke is out there running the printing presses as fast as he can. — Jim Rogers
If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Bitcoin is doing to energy what the printing press did to knowledge. — Robert Breedlove
And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of mans deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news-- that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent. — John F. Kennedy
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. — Samuel Butler
The coming of the motion picture was as important as that of the printing press. — William Randolph Hearst
Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected, from the cromlech of the Druids to those toy-shops of royal bad taste — Sydney, Lady Morgan
In one sense, the Internet is like the discovery of the printing press, only it's very different. The printing press gave us access to recorded knowledge. The Internet gives us access, not just to knowledge, but to the intelligence contained in people's crania, access to the intelligence of people on a global basis. — Don Tapscott
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is. — James Barrie
There are no checks and balances if the gov is wrong. If a private entrepreneur makes a mistake, he goes bankrupt, the losses are cut; if he bets wrong, he loses; if the gov bets wrong, they just get bigger, they just appropriate more money. It's a bottomless pit, because they either get it from the tax payers or run it off a printing press. — Peter Schiff
The full impact of printing did not become possible until the adoption of the Bill of Rights in the United States with its guarantee of freedom of the press. A guarantee of freedom of the press in print was intended to further sanctify the printed word and to provide a rigid bulwark for the shelter of vested interests. — Harold Innis
Freedom of the press, or, to be more precise, the benefit of freedom of the press, belongs to everyone – to the citizen as well as the publisher… The crux is not the publisher’s ‘freedom to print’; it is, rather, the citizen’s ‘right to know.’ — Arthur Hays Sulzberger
The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages. — Cornelia Funke
Perceval Press a publishing house I founded in 2002 and it's still going strong. Strong for us means not so many books per year, but each one we very carefully design and print. — Viggo Mortensen
I'm called an oral historian, which is something of a joke. Oral history was here long before the pen, long before Gutenberg and the printing press. The difference is I have a tape recorder in my hand. — Studs Terkel
The quintessential exercise of free speech in a culture supposedly built on that concept and dedicated to it, the Internet's development is as historically important to humanity perhaps even more so as Gutenberg 's invention of the printing press. — L. Neil Smith
It did not take long after the rise of the commercial printing press before someone figured out that erotic novels were a good idea. ... It took people another 150 years to even think of the scientific journal. — Clay Shirky
People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the page of a book to tell you who it comes from. Dogs, however, leave paw prints on our lives and our souls, which are as unique as fingerprints in every way. — Ashly Lorenzana
On our earth, before writing was invented, before the printing press was invented, poetry flourished. That is why we know that poetry is like bread; it should be shared by all, by scholars and by peasants, by all our vast, incredible, extraordinary family of humanity. — Pablo Neruda
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is. — E. F. Schumacher
The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare. — Marshall McLuhan
Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the printing press, which changed the human condition for centuries afterward. — Russell Baker
Another time factor is output: proofing and printing. That is, getting your work out of the computer and onto paper and having it satisfy you. It can be time consuming and expensive. — Buffy Sainte-Marie
TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press. — Fred W. Friendly
The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you. — Helena Bonham Carter
Once the idea is accepted that money is something whose supply is determined simply by the printing press, it becomes impossible for the politicians in power to resist the constant demands for further inflation. — Henry Hazlitt
The roots of copyright lie in censorship. It was easy for state and church to control thought by controlling the scribes, but then the printing press came along and the authorities worried that they couldn't control official thought as easily. — Stephan Kinsella
Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent. — John F. Kennedy
I am surprised at all the people in the high-tech industry focused on "making money"... If that's all they want to do, they should have a $100 printing press in their basements and they will truly "make money." Instead, if we focus all that energy on innovation, we'll change the world for the best. — Philippe Kahn
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