Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
Harold Pinter
More from: Harold Pinter
DOWNLOAD
You are free to use this picture for any purpose including commercial. A credit linking back to this page is appreciated.
Similar Quotes:
-
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. -
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. -
It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern. -
Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out? -
History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
More quotes by Harold Pinter
- Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
- My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.
- I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
- Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
- I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.