#lists

Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#context #everything #historical #important #interest

I tell fundamentalists that there is no question of them attacking our Republic's foundations. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#foundations #fundamentalists #i #our #question

One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs. ↗

— Dan Rather

#important roles #journalists #most #our #roles

Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls. ↗

— Dan Rather

#government #journalists #opinion #opinion polls #polls

Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything. ↗

— Dixie Lee Ray

#blamed #considered #environmentalists #everything #lowest

Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work. ↗

— David Remnick

#dare #domestic #high #independent #investigative

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#cynics #equally #everybody #except #idealists

Environmentalists have a very conflicted relationship with their cars. ↗

— Tom Arnold

#cars #environmentalists #relationship #their #very

Journalists never make it clear when you are joking. ↗

— David Bailey

#joking #journalists #make #never #you

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves. ↗

— Russell Banks

#books #finish #lists #more #relative