108 Quotes by Edward R. Murrow
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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.
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People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
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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.
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The right of dissent, or, if you prefer, the right to be wrong, is surely fundamental to the existence of a democratic society. That’s the right that went first in every nation that stumbled down the trail toward totalitarianism.
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"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."- Edward R. Murrow
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Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
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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 our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.
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To be persuasive we must be believable;to be believable we must be creditable;to be credible we must be truthful.
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Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
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