Tao Te Ching
George Seldes
1890 – 1995 CE
Pioneering investigative journalist and champion of the exposé
Star investigative reporter, muckraker, contrary-minded journalist, author, philosopher, and true citizen of the world; George Seldes lived a 104-year life full of adventure in dangerous countries, political challenge on the edge, and philosophical insight threatening the status quo. There and reporting on Hitler’s Berlin, Lenin’s Moscow, Mussolini’s Rome, and Franco conquering Spain; he was often characterized as too radical. Criticized and censored by newspapers, foreign and U.S. governments; one of his censored interviews with the supreme commander of the German Army could have prevented the rise of Nazi power before World War II. Expelled from the Soviet Union after interviewing Lenin and “not showing enough respect,” and from Italy after he implicated Mussolini (who had worked for Seldes before gaining power) in the murder of an opposition leader; he wrote exposés on the Roman Catholic Church, the global arms industry, and the complicity of the press with the tobacco industry in suppressing information on the bad effects of smoking. Toward the end of his life, he spent 20 years gardening and gathering material for a book of the world’s most influential thoughts.
Eras
Western
Post-Romantic Age (1850 – 2018 CE)Great Depression (1929 – 1941 CE)
Roaring Twenties (1920 – 1929 CE)
Chinese
Qing dynasty (1644 – 1912 CE)Generations
The Lost Generation (1883 – 1900 CE)Unlisted Sources
Great Quotations, 1960
The Great Quotations (1960)
The Great Thoughts (1985)
Witness to a Century, 1987
Quotes by George Seldes (9 quotes)
“I belonged to no party, no organization, no group, society, or faction.”
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“A devotion to humanity … is too easily equated with a devotion to a Cause, and Causes, as we know, are notoriously blood-thirsty.”
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“Advertisers are a far greater threat to journalistic freedom than government censorship.”
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“How many of the millions who do read books realize they are missing one of the truly great pleasures of life by not re-reading books?”
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“Shelley was an iconoclast, a fighter against the commonplace and against corruption. He was the singer of man's emancipation.”
from Great Quotations, 1960
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“The biographies of many notable men tell us that one great thought in one paragraph, or on one page, or, in an amazing case, one great phase, was enough to change the career of its reader, a great man.”
from Great Quotations, 1960
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“every history book which refers to that time as 'The Spanish Civil War' is wrong: the Madrid garrison and its generals remained true to the Republic; the traitor General Franco, with an army consisting mostly of Italian infantry and the entire Nazi air force, was on Franco's side”
from Witness to a Century, 1987
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“Although Lincoln may be the most quoted American of all time, I believe that John Stuart Mill is the writer most quoted by other writers.”
from The Great Quotations (1960)
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“The most amazing conversion, it seems to me, is that of the English philosopher and jurist Jeremy Bentham, whose lifework was the result of reading not one great book or even one page of a great book, but of a single phase. ['The greatest happiness for the greatest number.'-Priestly]”
from The Great Thoughts (1985)
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