Eric Sevareid Quotes

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• The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.
• The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.
• With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent…
• No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.
• I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.
• The chief source of problems is solutions.
• You can't know who you are, as a nation or a people, unless you know where you've been.
• For children, Christmas is anticipation. For adults, Christmas is memory.
• Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend.
• Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.
• I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.
• There are only two kinds of people in the world, suckers and people that can be had. Everyone can be had, but a sucker will…
• The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been , that the boys want to be something, while the…
• Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: "The…
• The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a 'calling.'
• The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.
• Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.
• Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.
• People, if given the choice between anarchy and dictatorship, will always choose dictatorship because anarchy is the worst dictatorship of all.
• Most problems are caused by solutions.

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