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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

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ALBERT CAMUS Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND No one can hope that men who have fought in silence for four years and are now fighting all day long...
ALBERT CAMUS The people are under arms tonight because they hope for justice for tomorrow, Some go about saying t...
ALBERT CAMUS Despite men's suffering, despite the blood and wrath, despite the dead who can never be replaced, th...
ALBERT CAMUS A free press needs to be a respected press.
TOM STOPPARD No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will.
THOMAS JEFFERSON This is totally paradoxical. Denmark is one of the countries in the world where press freedom is the...
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ADLAI E. STEVENSON I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting...
DAMON HILL When there's good press or bad press, people look at their overall browsing experience and look at w...
ASA DOTZLER The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any ...
WALTER LIPPMAN Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of free...
GEOFFREY FISHER No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
THOMAS JEFFERSON But we're getting bad press because of the number of Argentines who have fallen foul.
GUILLERMO VILAS Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.
FELIX FRANKFURTER Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of [achieving] a free society.
FELIX FRANKFURTER The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjo...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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JULIA W Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the...
JUNIUS The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and infor...
SAMUEL DASH Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, wit...
ROSA LUXEMBURG There certainly are some bad apples out there that give ammunition to the press and allow the perpet...
WILLIAM MATHEWS The Press will not be free to tell lies. That is not freedom for the people, but a tyranny over thei...
OSWALD MOSLEY Normal people, who can be good people but do bad things, are very interesting to me, and people that...
EMILY MORTIMER What you do is your choice. You can make good or bad choices, but there will never be any right or w...
IMANIA MARGRIA any time there's a contentious exchange in the White House press room, it makes the press look bad.
BRIT HUME The universe works in crazy ways. Your good luck will come in waves, and so does your bad, so you ha...
NICK CUMMINS You can love the good in us and hate the bad but the bad is in us too. Without it we wouldn't be us.
RICK YANCEY Never worry about bad press: All that matters is if they spell your name right.
KATE HUDSON These cartoons are indeed offensive to the belief of Muslims. We all fully recognize and respect fre...
KURTIS COOPER There can be no press freedom when journalists exist in conditions of corruption, poverty and fear.
AIDAN WHITE one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid
CHARLES BUKOWSKI If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The media is something I am not interested in, they make bad things look good and they make good thi...
OLASOT A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.
FRED ALLEN It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is ...
MARK LLOYD Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.
WILLIAM FAULKNER One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
FERDINAND MOUNT Early on in my career I had a lot of bad press about my temperament, but I was only a young lad then...
WAYNE ROONEY I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on...
NICK CLEGG Governments always tend to want not really a free press but a managed or well-conducted one.
UNKNOWN There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to pro...
MARK TWAIN Obviously, I've seen what the press has done to my cousins. I would never let that rule my life,...
LAUREN BUSH Habits can be good or bad, whereas addictions are always bad.
NIR EYAL People's abuse through journalism should not be taken us freedom of press.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE A people that wants to be free must arm itself with a free press.
GEORGE SELDES There can be no press freedom in the Philippines while journalists are forced to live in fear.
WARREN CHRISTOPHER At first, when I got bad press and people would talk bad about my family or something like that, I w...
HILARY DUFF A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart ...
DAN RATHER What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and J...
ESTHER DYSON You probably have the right to disclose them, guaranteed by the First Amendment, but that’s no gua...
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ROBERT JACKSON The Obama administration has been curtailing press freedom - but that hasn't ended the press'...
BEN SHAPIRO A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
MAXIM GORKY All things are pure in essense, because almost anything can be use with "good" or "bad intention".
DETECTIVE DAVID LOVE No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is ...
ANATOLE FRANCE Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. I...
W. M. L. JAY A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.
THOMAS PAINE I can be a good friend, or a bad enemy.
RICHELLE MEAD Money bought freedom; without it one could never be free.
JACQUELINE SUSANN Although her disobedience is tragic, Eve’s innocence is not all bad. Certainly, that innocfence le...
ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH Their withdrawal of the Bud Pong promotion would be more impressive if it hadn't followed the bad pr...
CHUCK HURLEY Even freedom of the press has limits.
MALIK KHAN I can't be perfect for you, but you are perfect for me.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Businesspeople get a little bit of bad press sometimes. There are a lot of normal and ethical people...
MATTHEW STEWART People talk about footballers and they get a bad press when not all of them deserve it.
GORDON STRACHAN If I go outside, I will be prepared but you inside and outside will stuck again and again without a ...
DEYTH BANGER I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and le...
LARRY DAVID With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good peopl...
STEVEN WEINBERG And I fired four more times at a lifeless body and the bullets sank in without leaving a mark. And i...
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KISHAN S CHAUHAN If you're a public relations person, any press is good press. It certainly brings more to the story ...
ERIC HEIDEN The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.
ALBERT CAMUS Anything or everything can happen. You determine how good or bad they are
CONSTANCEV CHUKS FRIDAY If we can handle the press and shoot some, we'll be in pretty good shape.
HARRY STATHAM A Friend can make you bad but he will never leave you till the end.
PAVANKUMARGUPTHA Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ We work hard against the press and we've got several guys who can handle the basketball. It's hard t...
BEN LEIKER Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that doe...
OTTO SCHILY Unless you have a free press in your country, there is no need to buy newspapers and there is no nee...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Anything that feels good couldn't possibly be bad.
ANGELINA JOLIE I never officially came out in any kind of really public way. I just always lived very simply and op...
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ANUJ SOMANY No one is good or bad by default, they are what they choose to be.
ALI BABAR متهمون نحن بالإرهاب
أذا كتبنا عن بقايا وطن ...
مخلع...
نزار قباني Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, ...
VIRGINIA GRAHAM The fact that the vice president shot someone at close range is very interesting. It is easy to mock...
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ALBERT CAMUS You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.
ALBERT CAMUS Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
ALBERT CAMUS Oh she's nice, she's kind, innocent too. She's probably pretty, the right one for you. So just forge...
ALBERT CAMUS He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
ALBERT CAMUS How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spa...
ALBERT CAMUS What is a rebel? A man who says no
ALBERT CAMUS Resist no temptation: a guilty conscience is more honorable than regret
ALBERT CAMUS When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.
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