Best Bill Moyers Quotes
- I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one Believe
- Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from the table; faith-based… Based
- The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do… Active
- We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings. Beings
- I really believe that coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous. Anonymous
- Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive. Alive
- When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too. Democracy
- There's 1,000 ways into addiction 1,000 ways out. Addiction
- If being tolerant of differing opinions, if believing that America has to make it as a pluralistic nation, if being civil, if that makes you… America
- Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table. Charity
- War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination. Defense
- Democracy works when people claim it as their own Claim
- America is the longest argument in the world. America
- A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many… Chronicler
- There is a historic strain of dominion theology which says, taking its references from the Psalms, that man is made just a little lower than… Acts
- Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government. The White House, the Congress and, increasingly, the… America
- Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows… Allows
- Television can stir emotions, but it doesn't invite reflection as much as the printed page. Emotion
- I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that… Almost Inaudible
- Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of. Dream
- America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and… All
- Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. Creativity
- There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought. Bought
- For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington. First Time
- When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more… Comfortable