Edward R Murrow Quotes
Quotes
War“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
Edward R MurrowQuotes
War“If there are any historians about fifty or a hundred years from now, 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.”
Edward R MurrowQuotes
War“I simply cannot accept that there are, on every story, two equal and logical sides to an argument.”
Edward R MurrowQuotes
War“ A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone. ”
Edward R MurrowQuotes
War“ If you believe that this war will be decided on the home front, then you must believe that radio used as an instrument of war is one of the most powerful weapons a nation possesses. ”
Edward R MurrowQuotes
War“ Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice and those thoughts we aren't interested in, people don't speak their beliefs easily, or publicly. ”
Edward R MurrowQuotes
War“ People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were. ”
Edward R MurrowQuotes
War“ The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. ”
Edward R MurrowQuotes
War“ We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason. ”
Edward R MurrowQuotes
War“ We're not descended from fearful men - not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular. ”
Edward R MurrowQuotes
War“ 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 miles. That is an electronic problem. The real art is to move it the last three feet in face to face conversation. ”
Edward R MurrowQuotes
War“ A satellite has no conscience. ”
Edward R MurrowQuotes
War“ To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful. ”
Edward R MurrowQuotes
War“ Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major influence in making modern man what he is today. ”
Edward R MurrowQuotes
War“ 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 without newspapers, and that is the real reason we want the newspapers to be free. ”
Edward R MurrowQuotes
War“ If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable. ”
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