We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
Edward R. MurrowTags: government loyalty
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
Edward R. MurrowOur major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
Edward R. MurrowPeople say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
Edward R. MurrowTags: media news conversation
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. MurrowTags: humor media news television popular-culture
We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.
Edward R. MurrowTags: entertainment media news television show-business
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
Edward R. MurrowTags: politics media news government
Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
Edward R. MurrowTags: indochina viet-nam vietnam-war
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
Edward R. MurrowWe 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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