Ryan Holiday Quotes

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

It is stupid on my part to think of banning the media.

I think the media are so hypocritical a lot of the time in the way they chastise something just so that they can print it again.

It is really the angling in the media that I do not like. That is how media can be rotten.

You cannot have the media so close to you that it becomes your voice. This is no good because it becomes too extreme, and people will resent it.

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.

You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise Soviet-style censorship through creative omission.

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.

As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down.

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

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

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

There is a power in our land, irresponsible, corrupt and malicious—‘the press,’ which has created the intense feelings of hostility that has arrayed the two parts of the country against each other, which must be curbed and brought within the just limits of reason and law, before we can have peace in America. We can deal with armies who have a visible and tangible existence, but it will require tact and skill and courage to clip the wings of this public enemy.

I have tried to write about this matter without any improper bias, but of course we are all cowards about newspapers who tyrannize over us all.

There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.

The fact that there aren't more restrictions on the media is disgraceful.

I loathe and despise the media in a way I did not think possible.

At the end of the day, media is going to say whatever they're going to say.

The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial.

I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

I can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so.

The biased left-wing media does what it wants. That's not going to define me or hamper me.