"In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right."

-- Ellen Goodman

#Firsts Quotes #Journalism Quotes #Tension Quotes

“In Dante the hero would rather flee and renounce the tempting embrace instead of yielding to his desires and enduring the attendant dangers.”
“Photography's vaunted capture of a moment in time is the seizure and freezing of presence. It is the image of simultaneity, of the way that everything within a given space at a given moment is present to everything else; it is a declaration of the seamless integrity of the real.”

Source : Rosalind E. Krauss (1986). “The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths”, p.107, MIT Press
“Sometimes...we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake.”
“Assent - and you are sane - Demur - and you're straightaway dangerous - and handled with a chain.”
“The memories you have are just recordings of things past, not chains to bind you.”
“The changes that take place when liberal Democrats replace not so liberal or compassionate Republicans (or Democrats) are merely cosmetic.”
“Military weapons are the means used by the Sage to punish violence and cruelty, to give peace to troublous times, to remove difficulties and dangers, and to succor those who are in peril. Every animal with blood in its veins and horns on its head will fight when it is attacked. How much more so will man, who carries in his breast the faculties of love and hatred, joy and anger! When he is pleased, a feeling of affection springs up within him; when angry, his poisoned sting is brought into play. That is the natural law which governs his being”
“There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman! No human being is unimportant. My inspiration comes in opening opportunities that all alike may be free to live life to the fullest.”

Source : Samuel Gompers (1957). “Seventy years of life and labor: an autobiography”

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