George Seldes quotes
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“No school can supply an anti-liberal education, or a fascist education, as these terms are contradictory. Liberalism and education are one.”
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“To know what Fascism really is we must first of all know what it is we are fighting, what the Fascist regimes really are and do, who puts up the money and backs Fascism in every country, and who owns the nations under such regimes, and why the natives of all Fascist countries must be driven into harder work, less money, reduced standards of living, poverty and desperation so that the men and corporations who found, subsidize and own Fascism can grow unbelievably rich.”
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“A people that wants to be free must arm itself with a free press.”
-- George SeldesSource : "Lords of the Press". Book by George Seldes, 1938.
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“The Republican and Democratic parties both feed out of the same bag provided by the monied system, and where the list frequently differs the same interests are represented.”
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“The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which is its pocketbook.”
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“And so [my brother] Gilbert and I, brought up without a formal religion, remained throughout our lifetimes just what Father was, freethinkers. And, likewise, doubters and dissenters and perhaps Utopians. Father's rule had been 'Question everything, take nothing for granted,' and I never outlived it, and I would suggest it be made the motto of a world journalists' association.”
-- George SeldesSource : George Seldes (2011). “Witness to a Century: Encounters with the Noted, the Notorious, and the Three SOBs”, p.24, Ballantine Books
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Source : "The Parenting Trap" by A. A. Gill, www.vanityfair.com. November 2, 2012.
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“I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.”
Source : "PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Aaron Tveit". Interview with Kenneth Jones, www.playbill.com. July 24, 2010.
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Source : "Broadway Favorite Aaron Tveit Tackles the Small Screen With ‘Graceland’". Interview with Suzy Evans, www.backstage.com. June 27, 2013.
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“Behind the parents stands the school, and behind the teacher the home.”
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Source : "ORIGIN FEM SERIES: Sally Kohn – CNN Columnist". ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
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Source : "Varieties of Fascism: Doctrine of Revolution in the Twentieth Century" by Eugen Weber, Princeton, NJ, D. Van Nostrand, (p. 47), 1964.
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