Bill Moyers Quotes

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• Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.
• 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…
• ...there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
• Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
• As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.
• 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…
• Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
• 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…
• Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
• How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
• 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…
• "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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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,…
• News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
• 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…
• Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.
• Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.

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