"I am seized with an abiding fear regarding……" — Edward R. Murrow
"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 be what we make it. And if there are any historians about fifty or a hundred years from now, and there should be preserved the kinescopes for one week of all three networks, they will there find recorded in black and white, or color, evidence of decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live,"
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Edward R. Murrow
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57 Quotes by Edward R. Murrow
Edward R. Murrow has 57 quotes on this site.
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People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
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A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be…
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The politician is . . . trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded,…
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A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame.
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We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
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If none of us ever read a book that was "dangerous," had a friend who was "different," or joined an…
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A satellite has no conscience.
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Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.
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When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus…
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We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and…
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The fact that your voice is amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to…
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It is well to remember that freedom through the press is the thing that comes first. Most of us probably…
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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right…
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Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear…
— Cecil Beaton
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A young woman who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
— Theodore Bikel
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When on life's journey it becomes our lot to travel with criticism of skeptics, the hate of some, the rejection…
— Unknown Author
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If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with…
— Charles Spurgeon
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A guest worker program should help farmers who are willing to pay a fair wage for law-abiding, dependable workers -…
— Bob Goodlatte
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Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
— Wole Soyinka
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And this is the time. It is the time for this land to become again a witness to the world…
— George McGovern
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Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one…
— Charlotte Mason
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The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of…
— Ronald Reagan
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