Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization.
- Walter Lippmann
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To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary... It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong; where truth is poisoned at its... The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief… that the forces which... He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or... The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of... There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.
When all think alike, then no one is thinking
The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about.
The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.
Successful … politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce,... The news and the truth are not the same thing.
It is often very illuminating…to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your... All achievement should be measured in human happiness.
There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.
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