Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor’s prejudices as the advertiser’s won’t object to.
– Helen Swaffer
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- A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad. – Albert Camus
- Defeat is simply a signal to press onward. – Helen Keller
- Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. – Abbott Joseph
- If you don’t have this freedom of the press, then all these little fellows are weaseling around and doing their monkey business and they never get caught. – Harold R. Medina
- Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men’s minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out. – Lord Jeffrey
- Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy. – Walter Cronkite
- Youth is an object of Hollywood dreams but Hollywood is an object that has aged.
- In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in. – Robert Brault
- The moral of film-making in Britain is that you will be filled by the weather. – Hugh Grant
- The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from merchandising. The advertiser has assumed the role of originator, and the performer has gradually been eased into the role of peddler. – E(lwyn) B(rooks) White