Ben Hecht Quotes

The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.

Reagan believed the power of truth restated the world and re framed the world. I am a Reaganite. I'm proud to be a Reaganite. I will tell the truth, even if it's at the risk of causing some confusion sometimes with the timid.

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

There is nothing more common than critics of journalists accusing them of practicing journalism. It is our function in the world to take things that are complicated and render them in a form that non-experts can follow and make sense of.

You look at what interests a person and then you formulate what their opinions are, in terms of how they see the world, and how they see love and life.

What you have carried in your mind about the world is what you will see around the world. What you carry in your mind about your life is what you will see in your life.

My illusion is to have something to transmit. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.

A good story should change the way you see the world.

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are -- or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms.

The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

We need a new political science for a new world.

I perceive the world through the wide range of emotions that whirl all around in it.

I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.

It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.

One of the principles of journalism is you don't lie. You never lie.

My comprehension of God comes from a deeply felt conviction of a superior intelligence that reveals itself in the knowable world.

The juice goes out of Christianity when it becomes too based on faith rather than on living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it.

The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.

Let's be clear on one thing, the corporate media in America is no longer involved in journalism. They're a political special interest no different than any lobbyist or other financial entity with a total political agenda, and the agenda is not for you, it's for themselves.

To me, writing is about how we see. The writers I want to read teach me how to see-see the world differently. In my writing there is no separation between how I observe the world and how I write the world. We write through our eyes. We write through our body. We write out of what we know.

I'm an educator, and I'm a scientist, and I speak what is objectively true. And if that offends you, I can try to have a conversation with you to ask why it offends you, and tell you why objective truth should not offend you because that's how the world works.

I've never seen more dishonest media than frankly, the political media. I thought the financial media was much better, much more honest.

A writer is basically someone who shares his or her value or vision of the world.

Asked where he came from, he said, "I am a citizen of the world."