#lists

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

— Robert Anton Wilson

#cynics #equally #everybody #except #idealists

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

I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems. ↗

— Ben Bradlee

#clinton #excused #good #i #journalists

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#close #club #come #could #cynicism

The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#default #fact #government #inside #journalists

I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#charging #consumers #content #discipline #forces

We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#carve #compete #good #helm #journalism

We are in a situation with the huge stimulus package that's going to be spent all across this nation and a big financial crisis and banking crisis. And what we need is good, trained journalists who can play the role of watchdog. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#banking #big #crisis #financial #financial crisis

In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#been #brazen #creationists #effective #evolutionary

To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#human #human mind #idea #important #materialists