Bill Moyers Quotes
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Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.
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Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality. When…
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...there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
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As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.
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Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important…
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Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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If you think there is freedom of the press in the United States, I tell you there is no freedom of the press... They come…
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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
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How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put…
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"In one way or another, this is the oldest story in America: the struggle to determine whether "we, the people" is a spiritual idea embedded…
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We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a nation, our own…
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Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilization...Without it, the imagination is but the echo of…
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I believe democracy requires a 'sacred contract' between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how…
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When all our efforts have come to nothing, we naturally tend to doubt not just ourselves, but also whether God is just. At those moments,…
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News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed…
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Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.
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Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.
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