Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Want to be a well-paid bioethicist, with one, two, or even three university appointments? Just get yourself a two-piece navy polyester suit and follow these three simple rules: (1) Never name names. (2) Screw principles; just follow procedures. (3) Bury the money.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren't supposed to make money!

The money's the same, whether you earn it or scam it.

He who thinks that anything can be accomplished with money will himself likely to do anything for money.

I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Men are seldom more innocently employed than when they are making money.

The man who damns money has obtained it dishonestly: the man who respects it has earned it.

There are certain stories that remind you of the moral purpose that originally drew you to become a reporter.

You can't forget it is a business and not just playing football for a hobby.

You have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without conscience, you are just one of many thousand journalists.

In the United Kingdom at various stages, journalism has been the profession of gentlemen amateurs. And some of them even pride themselves on being amateurs. Their quality is not comparable with the quality of intelligence services even if most of them harbor a remarkable degree of corruption and incompetence.

And it's a necessity [for journalists] to pretend to be competent on every subject, some of which they really do not understand. They are under that necessity, I regret; I'm sorry for them. But to pretend to understand all the things you write about, and habitually to write about things you do not understand, is a very corrupting thing.

The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.

The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.

Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.

Explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he helped arrange a private interview for them with First Lady Nancy Reagan: I didn't accept it. I received it.

Don't solicit for your sister, it's not nice. Unless you get a good percentage of her price.

There were few who preferred honor to money.

I solemnly swear not to talk about Hillary's appearance, because that is not journalism.

Study: concentration of the mind on whatever will ultimately put something in your pocket.

I think that if there are problems in journalism they're created by journalists... the trivialisation of the news and the sort of snyed, cynical allowance of untruth to be in a newspaper because it might be titillating.

Their constant yelping about a free press means, with a few honorable exceptions, freedom to peddle scandal, crime, sex, sensationalism, hate, innuendo and the political and financial uses of propaganda. A newspaper is a business out to make money through advertising revenue. That is predicated on the circulation and you know what circulation depends on.

Speech doesn't corrupt. Money corrupts, and money isn't speech.