“All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake “public opinion” for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.”

“In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one.”

Roy Hattersley (1932) British Labour Party politician, published author and journalist

“The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.”

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist

“Money buys you the freedom to live your life the way you want.”

Keanu Reeves (1964) Canadian actor, director, producer and musician

“Frankly, despite my distaste of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.”

Luis Buñuel (1900–1983) film director

“[on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.”

Johnny Depp (1963) American actor, film producer, and musician

“Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth, it buys as long as it has the means to buy.”

Karl Marx book Das Kapital

“Roger: It’s a little more freedom, sort of, but it’s more work, too, to keep up with all the little things. It’s kinda worth it, I guess; nobody really buys CDs so it really doesn’t matter.”

Roger Manganelli (1973) American musician

“We think we have got freedom of the press. When one millionaire has ten newspapers and ten million people have no newspapers—that is not freedom of the press.”

Anastas Mikoyan (1895–1978) Russian revolutionary and Soviet statesman

“Freedom of the Press,
if it means anything at all,
means the freedom
to criticize and oppose”

George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist