William Randolph Hearst was a famous American businessman, newspaper publisher and political leader. He was known for his stern and convincing statements about journalism and politics.
Born in 1863 in San Francisco, he vocalized several quotes that influenced the masses and persuaded people to think about politics and journalism in a different way. In this article, we will share with you 50 best William Randolph Hearst quotes that are relevant even today.
1. “We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.”– William Randolph Hearst
2. “You must keep your mind on the objective, not on the obstacle.”– William Randolph Hearst
3. “You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.”– William Randolph Hearst
4. “Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.”– William Randolph Hearst
5. “Putting out a newspaper without promotion is like winking at a girl in the dark — well-intentioned, but ineffective.”– William Randolph Hearst
6. “News is what people don’t want you to print. Everything else is ads.”– William Randolph Hearst
7. “It is the unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism, but one should not suggest that the whole of British industry consists of practices of this kind.”– William Randolph Hearst
8. “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.”– William Randolph Hearst
9. “I do not think that any man should be attacked because of his race or religion, or that he should be immune from attack because of race or religion.”– William Randolph Hearst
10. “You can crush a man with journalism.”– William Randolph Hearst
11. “Don’t be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.”– William Randolph Hearst
12. “My experience has proved that a man who is running for office, and is not willing to make his honest opinions known to the public, either has no honest opinions or is not honest about them.”– William Randolph Hearst
13. “You must keep your mind on the objective, not on the obstacle.”– William Randolph Hearst
14. “If you make a product good enough… the public will make a path to your door, says the philosopher. But if you want the public in sufficient numbers, you would better construct a highway. Advertising is that highway.”– William Randolph Hearst
15. “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.”– William Randolph Hearst
16. “A politician will do anything to keep his job – even become a patriot.”– William Randolph Hearst
17. “Users of marijuana become STIMULATED as they inhale the drug and are LIKELY TO DO ANYTHING. Most crimes of violence in this section, especially in country districts are laid to users of that drug.”– William Randolph Hearst
18. “All work and no play may make Jim a dull boy, but no work and all play makes Jim all kinds of a jackass.”– William Randolph Hearst
19. “It is a good thing that women are so easily manipulated. Otherwise, most of us wouldn’t be here.”– William Randolph Hearst
20. “The distribution of wealth is just as important as its creation.”– William Randolph Hearst
21. “We hold that the greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong, that in the exercise thereof people have an inviolable right to express their unbridled thoughts on all topics and personalities, being liable only for the abuse of that right.”– William Randolph Hearst
22. “We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others.”– William Randolph Hearst
23. “Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.”– William Randolph Hearst
24. “I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperance 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.”– William Randolph Hearst
25. “If you ask, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” The answer is, ‘You are.'”– William Randolph Hearst
26. “In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.”– William Randolph Hearst
27. “I have no use for all-out liberals because I don’t think they have an original thought.”– William Randolph Hearst
28. “Run a newspaper that is independent of everything except the interests of the public that you serve.”– William Randolph Hearst
29. “I’m afraid I’m like a dipsomaniac with a bottle. They keep sending me these catalogs and I can’t resist them.”– William Randolph Hearst
30. “It is not only fashionable to be sympathetic to Communism, but profitable too.”– William Randolph Hearst
31. “British Conservatives base their entire approach to politics on the rule of law, and rightly so.”– William Randolph Hearst
32. “We must not allow the Communists to get control of the machinery of government.”– William Randolph Hearst
33. “I do not write as a reactionary—good lord! I am not even a Conservative.”– William Randolph Hearst
34. “The people of California do not have to try the smallpox in order to realize that they do not like it.”– William Randolph Hearst
35. “This would, at a stroke, reduce the rise in prices, increase productivity, and reduce unemployment.”– William Randolph Hearst
36. “Don’t ask favors. Keep free from obligations of any kind.”– William Randolph Hearst
37. “Americans have blessed all civilizations.”– William Randolph Hearst
38. “Wealth is production. There may be prospective wealth, putative wealth, potential wealth, in the soil, in the ore veins, in various latent forms—but actual wealth is only that which has been produced into things men require. The more there is of production, therefore, the more there is of wealth.”– William Randolph Hearst
39. “We cannot cure murder by murder.”– William Randolph Hearst
40. “The whole world turns to the left.”– William Randolph Hearst
41. “If you want to see the acceptable face of capitalism, go out to an oil rig in the North Sea.”– William Randolph Hearst
42. “Rejoice! Rejoice! Rejoice!”– William Randolph Hearst
43. “Don’t be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.”– William Randolph Hearst
44. “Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.”– William Randolph Hearst
45. “The coming of the motion picture was as important as that of the printing press.”– William Randolph Hearst
46. “Please realize that the first duty of newspaper men is to get the news and PRINT THE NEWS.”– William Randolph Hearst
47. “Whatever is right can be achieved through the irresistible power of awakened and informed public opinion. Our object, therefore, is not to enquire whether a thing can be done, but whether it ought to be done, to exert the forces of publicity that public opinion will compel it to be done.”– William Randolph Hearst
48. “According to American principle and practice the public is the ruler of the State, and in order to rule rightly it should be informed correctly.”– William Randolph Hearst
49. “The Hearst papers believe in genuine democracy, the rule of the majority. They believe that America should be for Americans and that Americans should be for America. Those who do not approve of these policies would better not take these papers, because these are the policies which will be adhered to as long as they are published.”– William Randolph Hearst
50. “Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.”– William Randolph Hearst