Max Weber Quotes

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw in character.

I have huge respect for Preet Bharara, a great U.S. Attorney by any measure. But even great men can make mistakes.

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

I'm not a Casanova in 'The Newsroom,' by the way - just another hard worker.

There's some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it's a great profession, particularly investigative journalism.

Any of us who've been newspapermen for a long time hate generalizations.

My journalistic heroes are Peter Jennings and Ted Koppel and Tim Russert and Edward R. Murrow, among others, because they were tough.

No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.

There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.

Journalism is kind of scary and of it we should be wary.

It is better to be faithful than famous.

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population will hardly protest the extinction.

Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.

Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good.

It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.

Father: 'Anything but journalism.' I rebelled.

You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.

I run a couple of newspapers. What do you do?

If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.

She said she was working for the ABC news, it was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use.

I don't really like the way that journalism works in the UK anyway; it's all about getting the most shocking thing out of somebody and kind of twisting people's words, which isn't really journalism, as far as I'm concerned.

The truth and regularity of a character is not, in justice, to be looked upon as broken, from any one single act or omission which may seem a contradiction to it:Mthe best of men appear sometimes to be strange compounds of contradictory qualities.