Quotessence
Home / Authors / Joseph Pulitzer
Joseph Pulitzer

Joseph Pulitzer Quotes

Publisher

Filter quotes by topic

AllPeopleJournalismMercenaryNewspapersPressesJournalistWayMenMoralNews

Famous Joseph Pulitzer Quotes

“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.”

WayDoeMatterStatesIndividualSocialOpinionDemocracyFeetCrimePressesVicesTricksOne WayLive BySooner Or LaterRidiculePublic OpinionSecrecyDodge
Author:Joseph Pulitzer
Create image

“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.”

PeopleKnowsHandsGovernmentAbleTogetherFallVirtueGenerationsProducePressesJournalistPreservesRepublicCynicalFuture GenerationMockerySpiritedMouldDisinterestedMercenary
Author:Joseph Pulitzer
Create image

“I will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party, 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.”

WisdomFightingPoliticsPoorPartyClassPovertyEconomyProgressNewsIndependentInjusticeCorruptionSatisfiedReformWelfareLiberalismDevotedToleratePrivilegedPrintingPredatoryPlutocracyPublic Welfare
Author:Joseph Pulitzer
Create image

“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”

KnowsGovernmentAbleCourageVirtuePressesPreservesMockerySpiritedDisinterestedMercenary
Book:Pulitzer Publishing Company: Newspapers and Broadcasting in the Public Interest
Create image

“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.”

PeopleIdeasCausesBitsPartyPrinciplesSupportPrejudiceConclusionAdministrationPostsCriticizeFraudOrgansPartisanshipRepublicanism
Author:Joseph Pulitzer
Create image

“Every issue of the paper presents an opportunity and a duty to say something courageous and true; to rise above the mediocre and conventional; to say something that will command the respect of the intelligent, the educated, the independent part of the community; to rise above fear of partisanship and fear of popular prejudice. I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words.”

ThinkingWayHardWholeMightOpportunityCommunityLinesIssuesStyleDutyHard WorkTenPaperPrejudiceTwentiesIntelligentIndependentIntenseCommandEducatedCourageousArticlesConventionalMediocreRise AbovePolishRevisionPartisanshipWeighing
Author:Joseph Pulitzer
Create image

“There is room in this great and growing city for a journal that is not only cheap but bright, not only bright but large, not only large but truly democratic-dedicated to the cause of the people rather than that of the purse potentates-devoted more to the news of the New than the Old World-that will expose all fraud and sham, fight all public evils and abuses-that will sever and battle for the people with earnest sincerity.”

PeopleWorldFightingEvilCausesRoomsCitiesGrowingBattleNewsAbuseDemocraticJournalistFraudSincerityDedicatedDevotedJournalEarnestPursesOld World
Author:Joseph Pulitzer
Create image

“A journalist is the lookout on the bridge of the ship of state. He notes the passing sail, the little things of interest that dot the horizon in fine weather. He reports the drifting castaway whom the ship can save. He peers through fog and storm to give warning of dangers ahead. He is not thinking of his wages or of the profits of his owners. He is there to watch over the safety and the welfare of the people who trust him.”

PeopleThinkingGivingLittlesStatesInterestWatchesDangerFineSafetyNotesProfitStormPassingPassingsWeatherShipsJournalistBridgesWelfareReportsOwnersHorizonLittle ThingsWarningSailPeersWagesFogDotsDriftingCastawayFine Weather
Author:Joseph Pulitzer
Create image