Arthur Ochs Sulzberger famous quotes

The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment.
-- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

#Military #Reality #Defense

In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.
-- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

#True Love #Believe #Pride

Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.
-- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

#Home #Special #Purpose

Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.
-- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

#Liars #World #Paper

You’re not buying news when you buy The New York Times. You’re buying judgment.
-- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

#New York #News #Buying

If White men were not complaining, it would be an indication we weren't succeeding and making the inroads that we are.
-- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

#Men #White #Complaining

David Carr was one of the most gifted journalists who has ever worked at The New York Times,
-- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

#New York #Gifted #Journalist

More than print and ink, a newspaper is a collection of fierce individualists who somehow manage to perform the astounding daily miracle of merging their own personalities under the discipline of the deadline and retain the flavor of their own minds in print.
-- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

#Discipline #Personality #Miracle

You’re not buying news when you buy The New York Times. You’re buying judgment.
-- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

#New York #News #Buying

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.

We hope we're better. The reality is we had a pretty darn good team last year. But you can't just throw your gloves out there and be good again. We want to take that next step as a team.

Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

This power ought to be coextensive with all the possible combinations of such circumstances; and ought to be under the direction of the same councils which are appointed to preside over the common defense.

The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.