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Top 20 Harold Evans Quotes (2025 Update)

Harold Evans Quote: “The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.”

1. “The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.”

— Harold Evans

Harold Evans Quote: “Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.”

2. “Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.”

— Harold Evans

Harold Evans Quote: “In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.”

3. “In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.”

— Harold Evans

Harold Evans Quote: “If Rupert Murdoch wants to charge for content online, he will succeed in so far, but no further than what he provides that is unique and can’t be found anywhere. It doesn’t seem to me that if he wants to charge it will be a blow to universal freedom and liberty of mankind.”

4. “If Rupert Murdoch wants to charge for content online, he will succeed in so far, but no further than what he provides that is unique and can’t be found anywhere. It doesn’t seem to me that if he wants to charge it will be a blow to universal freedom and liberty of mankind.”

— Harold Evans

Harold Evans Quote: “Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.”

5. “Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.”

— Harold Evans

Harold Evans Quote: “Journalism is not easy. It’s the first rough draft. I don’t think you need to wait around until you have the definitive thing. You record what’s there; don’t delude yourself that this is the ultimate historical view.”

6. “Journalism is not easy. It’s the first rough draft. I don’t think you need to wait around until you have the definitive thing. You record what’s there; don’t delude yourself that this is the ultimate historical view.”

— Harold Evans

Harold Evans Quote: “I love craftsmanship of any kind, a job well done either by my chiropractor or carpenter, and I am addicted to print, the type, the ink. But my basic passion is journalism and I can’t live without being online.”

7. “I love craftsmanship of any kind, a job well done either by my chiropractor or carpenter, and I am addicted to print, the type, the ink. But my basic passion is journalism and I can’t live without being online.”

— Harold Evans

Harold Evans Quote: “What I’m driving at is let’s not lose sight in our excitement of the democratization of the media that some things are bad, false and ugly – and no amount of electronic gloss will make them true, beautiful and accurate.”

8. “What I’m driving at is let’s not lose sight in our excitement of the democratization of the media that some things are bad, false and ugly – and no amount of electronic gloss will make them true, beautiful and accurate.”

— Harold Evans

Harold Evans Quote: “When I was studying at Chicago and at Stanford University, where many many cases of two people observing the same event have a different take on what happened.”

9. “When I was studying at Chicago and at Stanford University, where many many cases of two people observing the same event have a different take on what happened.”

— Harold Evans

Harold Evans Quote: “Throughout America’s young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group.”

10. “Throughout America’s young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group.”

— Harold Evans

Harold Evans Quote: “I think America has a brilliant future.”

11. “I think America has a brilliant future.”

— Harold Evans

Harold Evans Quote: “Internet news cycles are by the minute, and any fool can take a headline from the Associated Press and send it out as news.”

12. “Internet news cycles are by the minute, and any fool can take a headline from the Associated Press and send it out as news.”

— Harold Evans

Harold Evans Quote: “Transmitting information is easier than creating understanding.”

13. “Transmitting information is easier than creating understanding.”

— Harold Evans

Harold Evans Quote: “When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things – mainly the vitality and the freedoms.”

14. “When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things – mainly the vitality and the freedoms.”

— Harold Evans

Harold Evans Quote: “For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.”

15. “For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.”

— Harold Evans

Harold Evans Quote: “Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.”

16. “Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.”

— Harold Evans

Harold Evans Quote: “Some blogs have become the best check on monopoly mainstream journalism, and they provide a surprisingly frequent source of initiative reporting.”

17. “Some blogs have become the best check on monopoly mainstream journalism, and they provide a surprisingly frequent source of initiative reporting.”

— Harold Evans

Harold Evans Quote: “The democratization of news is fine and splendid, but it’s not reporting. It’s based on a fragment of information picked up from television or the web, and people are sounding off about something that’s not necessarily true.”

18. “The democratization of news is fine and splendid, but it’s not reporting. It’s based on a fragment of information picked up from television or the web, and people are sounding off about something that’s not necessarily true.”

— Harold Evans

Harold Evans Quote: “We always talk about how everyone is unifocal. You can’t possibly be interested in jazz and Beethoven. Of course you can. You can’t both be reading a newspaper and be online. Of course you can. We shouldn’t be obsessed with a gun to your head, ‘You either read a newspaper or die!’”

19. “We always talk about how everyone is unifocal. You can’t possibly be interested in jazz and Beethoven. Of course you can. You can’t both be reading a newspaper and be online. Of course you can. We shouldn’t be obsessed with a gun to your head, ‘You either read a newspaper or die!’”

— Harold Evans

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Harold Evans Quote: “Nothing is so tiring to the reader as excavating nuggets of meaning from mountains of words.”

20. “Nothing is so tiring to the reader as excavating nuggets of meaning from mountains of words.”

— Harold Evans

Harold Evans Quote: “I think a lot of newspapers have lost touch with that sense of community, which so impressed me as a teenager when I had to knock on people’s doors.”

21. “I think a lot of newspapers have lost touch with that sense of community, which so impressed me as a teenager when I had to knock on people’s doors.”

— Harold Evans

Harold Evans Quote: “Adjectives not susceptible to modifiers are: certain, complete, devoid, empty, entire, essential, everlasting, excellent, external, fatal, final, fundamental, harmless, ideal, immaculate, immortal, impossible, incessant, indestructible, infinite, invaluable, invulnerable, main, omnipotent, perfect, principal, pure, round, simultaneous, square, ultimate, unanimous, unendurable, unique, unspeakable, untouchable, whole, worthless.”

22. “Adjectives not susceptible to modifiers are: certain, complete, devoid, empty, entire, essential, everlasting, excellent, external, fatal, final, fundamental, harmless, ideal, immaculate, immortal, impossible, incessant, indestructible, infinite, invaluable, invulnerable, main, omnipotent, perfect, principal, pure, round, simultaneous, square, ultimate, unanimous, unendurable, unique, unspeakable, untouchable, whole, worthless.”

— Harold Evans

Harold Evans Quote: “I would have written something shorter, but I didn’t have time.”

23. “I would have written something shorter, but I didn’t have time.”

— Harold Evans

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