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Quotes by Editor
"Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world."
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"An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous."
53
"Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other."
52
"We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right."
52
"The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast."
52
"I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense."
51
"Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy."
50
"I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems."
50
"The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part."
49
"In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism."
48
"Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things."
48
"A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around."
War,
48
"Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there."
48
"The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists."
48
"We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury."
48
"Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others."
48
"Journalism as theater is what TV news is."
46
"An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time."
46
"When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at."
46
"The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it."
46
"I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot."
46
"An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment."
45
"All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up."
45
"Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people."
45
"Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other."
45
"A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together."
45
"The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack."
44
"Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that's by far the best way to break in."
44
"Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment."
44
"I think on civilian casualties they could do more. It's actually something I've discussed with the editors involved. They're aware of it, and I'm hopeful that there will be more reporting on that."
43
"It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy."
43
"The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a known process and make it more productive, or it can explore a new process at the cost of being less efficient."
43
"One of Brando's problems is that he can't have a conversation with anyone."
43
"Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is."
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"So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater."
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