Press Quotes – Reflections on the Role of the Press

"What good is it for a person to learn to read and write if they leave the thinking to others?"

Ernst R. Hauschka

"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order."

David Rockefeller

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."

Hannah Arendt

"The lie of tyranny is that you will maintain the freedom of life by obeying authority. The choices it offers you are a lifetime of obedience or death. Evil is the master of deceit. The objective of evil is not violence, but obedience. The purpose of violence is to compel obedience. Its design is the destruction of freedom. Whether submitting to authority and obeying, or allowing it to destroy you physically, you will have lost your freedom. The only way to maintain freedom is to fight tyranny at all times and at all costs."

Jeremy Locke

"We cannot vaccinate our way out of the pandemic. [...] We are currently vaccinating against a variant that no longer exists. [...] Where we no longer have any real protective effect. It was a mistake from the outset to say that we had protection against infection."

Prof. Dr. Hendrik Streeck

"A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years."

Lysander Spooner

"We should never forget that the constitution wasn't written to restrain citizens' behavior. It was written to restrain the government's behavior."

Rand Paul

"The consequences of fear can be far greater than those caused by the virus itself."

Jens Spahn

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

George Orwell

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."

William Casey

"My professional career has been one long decline—from musician to lawyer and then to politician."

Lothar de Maizière

"Unfortunately, science has become political. The virus has become political. And I have said that I do not want to comment on the feasibility and proportionality of this. That is a political question."

Prof. Dr. Hendrik Streeck

"In former times, torture was used. Nowadays, the press is used. That is certainly progress."

Oscar Wilde

"The possibilities for manipulation have, of course, increased considerably in the age of mass media."

Arthur Miller

"The news and the truth are not the same thing."

Walter Lippmann

"People aren’t actually that stupid — we’re going to make them that way through television."

Hans Joachim Kulenkampff

"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic disease of the 20th century and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. Such as it is, however, the press has become the greatest power within the Western countries, more powerful than the legislative power, the executive, and the judiciary. And one would then like to ask: By what law has it been elected and to whom is it responsible? In the communist East a journalist is frankly appointed as a state official. But who has granted Western journalists their power, for how long a time, and with what prerogatives?"

Alexander Solschenizyn

""Freedom of the press is the freedom of two hundred rich people to spread their opinions. As the production of newspapers and magazines requires ever greater capital, the circle of people who publish press organs is becoming smaller and smaller. This makes our dependence ever greater and ever more dangerous. There are oases in the German press where the air of freedom still blows, but how many of my colleagues can say the same? Those who are rich are free. That's not from Karl Marx, but from Paul Sethe. Since journalists are not rich, they are not free either.""

Paul Sethe