Joseph Pulitzer Quotes

I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people. ~ Joseph Pulitzer

The distinctive crimes of this generation are crimes of subtlety and finesse.
- ALEXANDER S. BACON 1908 ~ J.M. Carlisle

We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its National conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.There isnot a crime, there isnot a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.Get these things out in the open, describe them, attack them, ridicule them in the press, and sooner or later public opinion will sweep them away. ~ Joseph Pulitzer

Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life. ~ Joseph Pulitzer

Newspapers should have no friends. ~ Joseph Pulitzer

I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training. ~ Joseph Pulitzer

They call me the father of illustrated journalism. What folly! I never thought any such thing. I had a small newspaper, which had been dead for years, and I was trying in every way to build up its circulation. What could I use for bait? A picture, of course. ~ Joseph Pulitzer

There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy. ~ Joseph Pulitzer

I want to talk to a nation, not to a select committee. ~ Joseph Pulitzer

Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it, and above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light. ~ Joseph Pulitzer

Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations. ~ Joseph Pulitzer

The Post-Dispatch will serve no party but the people; be no organ of Republicanism, but the organ of truth; will follow no causes bit its conclusions; will not support the Administration, but criticize it; will oppose all frauds and shams wherever or whatever they are; will advocate principles and ideas rather than prejudices and partisanship. ~ Joseph Pulitzer

My especial object is to help the poor; the rich can help themselves. I believe in self-made men. ~ Joseph Pulitzer

In his 1907 retirement address, Joseph Pulitzer urged his successors to always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty. ~ Joseph Pulitzer

Money is the great power today. Men sell their souls for it. Women sell their bodies for it. Others worship it. The money power has grown so great that the issue of all issues is whether the corporation shall rule this country or the country shall again rule the corporations. ~ Joseph Pulitzer

Rove and his attorneys can parse the words all they want, but it is now clear that while Rove may not have given a reporter Plame's name, he clearly identified her by telling the reporter that Joseph Wilson's wife was a CIA agent. ~ Louise Slaughter

Ladies are always of great use to the party they espouse, and never fail to win over numbers to it. Lovers, according to Sir William Petty's computation, make at least the third part of sensible men of the British nation; and it has been an uncontroverted maxim in all ages, that though a husband is sometimes a stubborn sort of a creature, a lover is always at the devotion of his mistress. By this means, it lies in the power of every fine woman, to secure at least half a dozen able-bodied men to his Majesty's service. ~ Joseph Addison

In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system. Under U.S.S.R. law active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty. ~ Joseph Stalin

Speech is but the incorporation of thought. ~ Joseph Joubert

Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain. ~ Joseph De Maistre

Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature. ~ Joseph Butler

He found himself in the ironic position of being the indispensable man in a political world that regarded all leaders as disposable. ~ Joseph J. Ellis

We are friendly to our country, and when we speak of the flag of our Union, we love it, and we love the rights the Constitution guarantees to every citizen. What did the Prophet Joseph say? When the Constitution shall be tottering we shall be the people to save it from the hand of the foe. ~ Joseph Smith Jr.

Like a lot of my creative decisions (and important life decisions, come to think of it), I don't have any sort of rational account of my reasoning. It just felt right and I went with it. ~ Joseph Fink

Does it seem to you impossible to imagine anything more inextricable than the social contract, when you think of the frightful number of relations that it must regulate
something like squaring the circle, or finding perpetual motion? That is the reason why, wearied of the struggle, you fall back on absolutism and force. ~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Growing up, money is important. And now I have a career where I'm making enough money to live. But I really want to give it to my parents, my family, charities, and people around me. ~ Tyler Joseph

When an enemy throws the worst it can at us we must meet it with the best we have. ~ Joseph M. Marshall III

I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together. ~ Joseph Hall

History is what the evidence compels us to believe. ~ Michael Joseph Oakeshott

It blind - as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness. The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty ~ Joseph Conrad

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness. ~ Joseph Campbell

What middle-income Americans want most of all is a job. We need a generous safety net for the most vulnerable in our society, but for most people the biggest social accomplishment that we can help them achieve is a good-paying job. ~ Joseph M. Kyrillos

"Thinking" is not something we talk about. ~ Joseph Barrell

It is through each other that we can see. ~ Joseph McElroy

The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him. ~ Joseph Heller

The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself. ~ Joseph Campbell

The making of a fortune cannot be achieved without some roughness. It is a matter of temperament. His ~ Joseph Conrad

Remember that misuse of language can lead to miscommunication, and that miscommunication leads to everything that has ever happened in the whole of the world. ~ Joseph Fink

In one of the Upanishads it says, when the glow of a sunset holds you and you say 'Aha,' that is the recognition of the divinity. And when you say 'Aha' to an art object, that is a recognition of divinity. And what divinity is it? It is your divinity, which is the only divinity there is. We are all phenomenal manifestations of a divine will to live, and that will and the consciousness of life is one in all of us, and that is what artwork expresses. ~ Joseph Campbell

the famine. GEN41.37 And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants. GEN41.38 And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is? GEN41.39 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art: GEN41.40 Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou. GEN41.41 ~ Anonymous

There were billions of conscientious body cells oxidating away day and night like dumb animals at their complicated job of keeping him alive and healthy, and every one was a potential traitor and foe. ~ Joseph Heller

A lot of things we don't have to have, but they're enjoyable. ~ Joseph Prince

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again. ~ Joseph Wambaugh

If we seek things that are virtuous and lovely, we surely will find them. Conversely, if we seek for evil, we will find that also. ~ Joseph B. Wirthlin

My best quality is that I talk to everyone. My worst quality is that I talk to everyone. ~ Joseph J. Lhota

The Pope! How many divisions has he got? ~ Joseph Stalin

A man is as young as his spinal column. ~ Joseph Pilates

Property and society are completely irreconcilable with one another. It is as impossible to associate two proprietors as to join two magnets by their opposite poles. Either society must perish, or it must destroy property. ~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

History did not demand Yossarian's premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon it, victory did not depend on it. That men would die was a matter of necessity; WHICH men would die, though, was a matter of circumstance, and Yossarian was willing to be the victim of anything but circumstance. But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents. ~ Joseph Heller

Your drawbacks is not just the evil you did but the good you refuse to do ~ Ikechukwu Joseph

Opera and church recitals are options, of course, but they require some initiative and arrangement: tickets and schedules and so forth. I am not good at that; it's rather like fixing a three-course meal for yourself - perhaps even lonelier. ~ Joseph Brodsky

We belong to the race that knows Joseph ~ L.M. Montgomery

If God had a church it would not be split up into factions, and that if he taught one society to worship one way, and administer in one set of ordinances, He would not teach another, principles which were diametrically opposed. ~ Joseph Smith Jr.

They tell us the Book of Mormon states that Jesus was begotten of the Holy Ghost. I CHALLENGE THAT STATEMENT. The Book of Mormon teaches NO SUCH THING! NEITHER DOES THE BIBLE. ~ Joseph Fielding Smith

The most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy, but which it is powerless to enrich. ~ Joseph Wood Krutch

Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing. ~ Joseph Priestley

All the information you need is available to you to have a successful career in music, if you're paying attention, and not closed off to anything. Remember, Perseverance is King. ~ Bradley Joseph

I combat the errors of ages; I meet the violence of mobs; I cope with illegal proceedings from executive authority; I cut the gordian knot of powers, and I solve mathematical problems of universities, with truth-diamond truth; and God is my 'right hand man'. ~ Joseph Smith Jr.