Will Hays
Will Hays
Former President of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America. He created the first standards of decency for Hollywood productions.
ProfessionBusiness Executive
Date of Birth5 November 1879
CitySullivan, IN
public
We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.
public
We journalists tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.
warrior looks movement
I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.
men decision information
Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he bases it
eyebrows united-states british
The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.
giving-up warrior looks
I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up something of infinitely greater value of the world. ... I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.
generations waste this-generation
Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.
mean affair should
The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.
thinking iran turkeys
What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples.
cat jumping care
We [journalists] tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.
thinking shadow news
News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are.
benefits citizens crux
Freedom of the press, or, to be more precise, the benefit of freedom of the press, belongs to everyone – to the citizen as well as the publisher… The crux is not the publisher’s ‘freedom to print’; it is, rather, the citizen’s ‘right to know.’
responsible newspapers reader
Along with responsible newspapers we must have responsible readers.
pride agreement desire
Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.