108 Quotes by Edward R. Murrow

Just once in a while, let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

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.

I would like television to produce some itching pills rather than this endless outpouring of tranquilizers..

Fame is morally neutral.

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

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.

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.

I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and mature than most of the broadcast industry's planners believe. Their fear of controversy is not warranted by the evidence.

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