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Edward R. Murrow

(1908–1965) Journalist United States

92 quotes in 502 categories

Edward R. Murrow stresses that truth is the strongest kind of propaganda and that lies are the worst. He compares television to a circus that already exists, saying it only makes the show louder. He also mentions how people hide naked truths, preferring to cover them up.

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Edward R. Murrow was a journalist from the United States, best known for This I believe..

Quick Facts About Edward R. Murrow

Born: April 25, 1908
Died: April 27, 1965
Nationality: United States
Profession: Journalist
Notable works: This I believe.
Spouse: Janet Huntington Brewster

About Edward R. Murrow

Edward Roscoe Murrow was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent.

Awards & Honors

Presidential Medal of Freedom Peabody Awards George Polk Award Television Hall of Fame Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Trustees Award

Quotes by Edward R. Murrow

All babies look like Winston Churchill.

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Babies

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Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

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Adversity

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We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

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Betrayal

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To be credible we must be truthful.

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Being truthful

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We cannot make good news out of bad practice.

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Good night, and good luck.

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Fame is morally neutral.

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Fame

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A satellite has no conscience.

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Conscience

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Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.

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Buchenwald

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We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.

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Age

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We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.

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The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

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Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.

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We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

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Freedom

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Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

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Mistake

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We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.

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Business

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Seldom, if ever, has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of uncertainty and fear, with such a realization…

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Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice (and those thoughts we aren't interested in),…

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Belief

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Don't be deluded into believing that the titular heads of the networks control what appears on their networks. They all have better…

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“Most truth's are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.”

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“Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you're any wiser than when it reached only to the end…

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Around the world

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The only thing that counts is the right to know, to speak, to think - that, and the sanctity of the courts.…

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America

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Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

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Experience

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If you believe that this war will be decided on the home front, then you must believe that radio used as an…

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American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best…

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American tradition

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One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of…

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Advertising

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In order to progress, radio need only go backward, to the time when singing commercials were not allowed on news reports, when…

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Your voice, amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other, does not confer upon…

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Around the world

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Our history will be what we make of it. If we go on as we are, then history will take its revenge…

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If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number…

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Christ

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The fact that your voice, amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other, does…

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“We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if…

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“We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if…

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We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off…

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Allergies

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I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage.…

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I have said, and I believe, that potentially we have in this country a free enterprise system of radio and television which…

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We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence…

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Accusation

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There is a mental fear, which provokes others of us to see the images of witches in a neighbor's yard and stampedes…

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“I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history…

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History

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We are to a large extent an imitative society.

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Community

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