Adolf Hitler Quotes

The press is the enemy.

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen, and the far spread magazine, rules the country.

One of our greatest glories is closure of offending newspapers. Based on our assessments, by doing this, we have done the greatest service to the people

The White House expansion to control the entire corpus of the News was the direct result of television.

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

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

The press ... is but the servant of human intellect and its ministry is for good or evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill that grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread.

The newspapers of your country seem to be more powerful than the government.

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

For thirty years the press has ceased to exist in Turkey. There are indeed newspapers, many of them even, but the scissors of censorship cut them in so emasculating a manner that they no longer have any potency. If I dare, I would call them gelded newspapers or rather, to keep the local color, eunuchs.

In spite of your “liberty of the press”, at a hint from your government your whole national press becomes unanimous on questions outside domestic politics.

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

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.]

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

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.

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

Routine is a declivity down which many governments slide, and routine says that freedom of the press is dangerous.

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.

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

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.

The concept that the press is an organ of government policy dies hard.

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

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press.

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.