Terry Eagleton Quotes

The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people.

While I accept that there are certain things about my private life that will always be of interest to the public, it would be better if you give the same amount of attention to issues that matter as well.

For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.

I struggle with deciding when to answer or ignore the constant speculation about my private life, because I feel like that doesn't belong to anybody but me.

I don't see why it gives people the right to know about my private life if I don't want to talk about it.

The fourth estate which if not well looked to, will turn us all out of doors.

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.

I respect the media, and in return, they respect my privacy.

We've got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders. We're not gonna get the best people in public life if we don't do that.

When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

I've always been a private person, and I've always valued my private life.

More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power by corporate interests, but as the retreat of citizens to private life and private space, screened from solidarity with strangers and increasingly afraid or even unable to imagine acting in public.

We believe that government works for the benefit of private life, and not the other way around.

The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.

Coal companies have a lot of power in the media, and unfortunately a lot of information doesn't get out.

I have invested the best part of my adult political life in helping to try to build up this movement and I am far from perfect but I do think I am able, through the media, to deliver a good, simple, understandable message.

As most of the population suffers through life, barely surviving, disappointed and confused day after day, hopeless, wondering what happened to their strong and beautiful country, it is in the media's power to restore, if not some of our quality of life, at least a bit of our peace of mind.

It is stupid on my part to think of banning the media.

All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

The perception of broadcasters as community trustees should be replaced by a view of broadcasters as marketplace participants.

The marketing department of any given publishing house has far more power over free expression in America than any government office.

'...all the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism

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