Skepticlawyer

If I were a father and had a daughter who was dishonored I would not despair over her; I would pray for her salvation. But if I had a son who became a journalist, and remained a journalist for five years I would give him up. Possibly, I should have been wrong in this particular case, possibly the daughter would have been lost and the son won back again; but ideally speaking my observations are correct: to serve politics through the daily press is too much for a man. Who would dare disclaim having sometimes, and perhaps often, made use of a little lie: but a little lie used every day – and in print, so that as a result one is appealing to thousands and thousands – that is frightful. One is appalled at the way a butcher uses a knife: but that is absolutely nothing to the terribly irresponsible and hardened way in which a journalist uses lies.

- Soren Kierkegaard