Edward R. Murrow Quotes

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• People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
• A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.
• The politician is . . . trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a…
• A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame.
• We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
• If none of us ever read a book that was "dangerous," had a friend who was "different," or joined an organization that advocated "change," we…
• A satellite has no conscience.
• Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.
• When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that…
• We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that…
• The fact that your voice is amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other does not confer…
• I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage. Our history will…
• It is well to remember that freedom through the press is the thing that comes first. Most of us probably feel we couldn't be free…
• The real crucial link in the international exchange is the last three feet, which is bridged by personal contact, one person talking to another.
• It has always seemed to me the real art in this business is not so much moving information or guidance or policy five or 10,000…
• The best speakers know enough to be scared…the only difference between the pros and the novices is that the pros have trained the butterflies to…
• I would like television to produce some itching pills rather than this endless outpouring of tranquilizers..
• Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his…
• Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.
• Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

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