Edward R. Murrow Quotes - Page 3

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

  Edward R. Murrow

  Men, Due Process Of Law, Remember

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• 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 dreams to life.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Life, Dream, Memories

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• The politician is trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Art, Cutting, Political

  Address at London Guildhall, October 19, 1959.

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• We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Political, Due Process Of Law, Conformity

  "Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy" (television documentary), 7 Mar. 1954

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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 of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Color, Aggravation, Numbers

  "Prime Time: The Life of Edward R. Murrow". Book by Alexander Kendrick, 1969.

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• Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Battle, Language, English Language

  Broadcast, 30 Nov. 1954

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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 that the future is obscure and that survival is not assured.

  Edward R. Murrow

  War, Leaving, Survival

  Edward R. Murrow (1967). “In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961”

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

  Edward R. Murrow

  Business, Tents, Freak

  As quoted by Bill Moyers CBS TV, September 10, 1986.

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• Of this be wary. Honor and fame are often regarded as interchangeable. Both involve an appraisal of the individual. . . but I suggest this difference. Fame is morally neutral.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Differences, Honor, Fame

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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 not confer upon you greater wisdom than when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Country, Voice, Understanding

  Edward R. Murrow's RTNDA Convention Speech, www.rtdna.org. October 15, 1958.

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

  Edward R. Murrow

  Desire, Tuberculosis, Buchenwald

  CBS radio broadcast from Buchenwald, www.lib.berkeley.edu. April 15, 1945.

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• We are to a large extent an imitative society.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Radio-Television News Directors Association Convention Address, delivered 15 October 1958, Chicago, Illinois

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• People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Funny, Art, Communication

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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), people don't speak their beliefs easily, or publicly.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Thinking, People, Prejudice

  "This I Believe" radio program, thisibelieve.org. 1951.

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• 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. Murrow

  Men, Fire, Discovery

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• It appeared that most of the men and boys had died of starvation; they had not been executed. But the manner of death seemed unimportant. Murder had been done at Buchenwald. God alone knows how many men and boys have died there during the last twelve years.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Boys, Men, Years

  Edward R. Murrow (1967). “In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961”

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• 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. Murrow

  Art, Real, Moving

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• All babies look like Winston Churchill.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Baby, Looks

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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 is superior to any other. But to achieve its promise, it must be both free and enterprising. There is no suggestion here that networks or individual stations should operate as philanthropies. But I can find nothing in the Bill of Rights or in the Communications Act which says that they must increase their net profits each year, lest the Republic collapse.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Country, Communication, Believe

  Radio-Television News Directors Association Convention Address, delivered 15 October 1958, Chicago, Illinois

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• A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Men, Wish, Body

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• I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and more mature than most of our industry's program planners believe.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Believe, America, Mature

  "In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961".

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• A satellite has no conscience.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Science, Satellites, Conscience

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• A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Light, Flames, Symphony

  Edward R. Murrow (1967). “In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961”

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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 taste.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Believe, Politics, Taste

  Radio-Television News Directors Association Convention Address, delivered 15 October 1958, Chicago, Illinois

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• 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. Murrow

  Air, Yesterday, Gone

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