
As quoted in Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1982) by Jonathon Green
The future of newspaper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyiowqNu23s, LaStampa, 21-06-17
As quoted in Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1982) by Jonathon Green
“A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands.”
Page 220
A Discord of Trumpets (1956)
Source: 1930s, Education and the Social Order (1932), p. 133
“Newspapers blew on dirty floors. Littering is an ancillary function of the free press.”
Afterwords on the Life of Kings, p. 436
The Boys Of Summer
Interview The Scotsman, 2010
Introduction to "Alma"
That Was the Year That Was (1965)
Context: Last December 13th, there appeared in the newspapers the juiciest, spiciest, raciest obituary it has ever been my pleasure to read.
It was that of a lady named Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel, who had, in her lifetime, managed to acquire as lovers practically all of the top creative men in central Europe. And, among these lovers, who were listed in the obituary, by the way, which is what made it so interesting, there were three whom she went so far as to marry: One of the leading composers of the day, Gustav Mahler, composer of "Das Lied von der Erde" and other light classics, one of the leading architects, Walter Gropius, of the "Bauhaus" school of design, and one of the leading writers, Franz Werfel, author of the "Song of Bernadette" and other masterpieces.
It's people like that who make you realize how little you've accomplished. It is a sobering thought, for example, that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.
“To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 21
"On the Cryptic and the Elliptic"
All Things Considered (1908)
Context: For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers. The speeches in our time are more careful and elaborate, because they are meant to be read, and not to be heard. And exactly because they are more careful and elaborate, they are not so likely to be worthy of a careful and elaborate report. They are not interesting enough. So the moral cowardice of modern politicians has, after all, some punishment attached to it by the silent anger of heaven. Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them.