40 Quotes by William Randolph Hearst

Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.

We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.

I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign of force for an effective campaign of education; because it has replaced comparatively uninjurious light wines and beers with the worst kind of hard liquor and bad liquor; because it has increased drinking not only among men but has extended drinking to women and even children.

You can crush a man with journalism.

All work and no play may make Jim a dull boy, but no work and all play makes Jim all kinds of a jackass.

When free discussion is denied, hardening of the arteries of democracy has set in, free institutions are but a lifeless form, and the death of the republic is at hand.

Putting out a newspaper without promotion is like winking at a girl in the dark -- well-intentioned, but ineffective.

Most criminals are not born; they are made.... What the State really punishes in a criminal is often its own neglect, its own failure to do its duty to the citizen.

News is what people don't want you to print. Everything thing else is ads.