Paul Fesch Quotes

Freedom of the press, printing, publication and mass media shall be guaranteed. Censorship on newspapers is forbidden as well as notifying, suspending or cancelling them by administrative methods. In a state of emergency or in time of war a limited censorship may be imposed on the newspapers, publications and mass media in matters related to public safety or purposes of national security in accordance with the law.

A free press may be good or bad, but without freedom a press can only be bad.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

A free press can of course be good or bad, but most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad.

When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

To-day a democrat of the old school would demand, not freedom for the press, but freedom from the press

Turkey still has one of the highest number of imprisoned journalists in the world.

We must have a free press. If we are to maintain democracxy as we know it, we must have a free and adversarial press.... That's how dictoators get power [by intimidating, restriciting and censoring the press.]

Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.

This is probably my last free statement through our news media, where the radio and television are already under the heel of the ruling political party of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe. One would have thought radio and television were enough as propaganda tools.

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.

Our press has too much freedom …. Democracy is a very lovely thing for a developed people.

Pakistan is an anomaly in the Islamic world, in the sense that there is a free press, which is amazing. I can't think of another Islamic country where the press is so free….one cannot claim that there is no fear. There is fear, but more and more people are saying what they want to say

In order to enjoy the inestimable benefits that the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils it creates

There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly TERRIBLE to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a FREE PRESS.

The government that has imprisoned more journalists than any other in the world was democratically elected.

It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.

I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be.

There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea.

If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason.

There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.

We believe that the remedy to any harm resulting from press freedom lies in press freedom itself.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost

The newspapers, magazines and other journals of the country, it is safe to say, have shed and continue to shed, more light on the public and business affairs of, the nation than any other instrumentality of public; and since informed public opinion is the most potent of all restraints upon misgovernment, the suppression or abridgment of the publicity afforded by a free press cannot be regarded otherwise than with grave concern.

Give people control of the media and they will use it. Don’t give them control and you will lose it.