I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will take its revenge, and retribution will not limp in catching up with us.
We are to a large extent an imitative society. If one or two or three corporations would undertake to devote just a small fraction of their advertising appropriation along the lines that I have suggested, the procedure would grow by contagion; the economic burden would be bearable, and there might ensue a most exciting adventure--exposure to ideas and the bringing of reality into the homes of the nation.
To those who say people wouldn't look; they wouldn't be interested; they're too complacent, indifferent and insulated, I can only reply: There is, in one reporter's opinion, considerable evidence against that contention. But even if they are right, what have they got to lose? Because if they are right, and this instrument is good for nothing but to entertain, amuse and insulate, then the tube is flickering now and we will soon see that the whole struggle is lost.
This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box. There is a great and perhaps decisive battle to be fought against ignorance, intolerance and indifference.
Mots clés tv-reference wires-and-lights-in-a-box
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
Edward R. MurrowMots clés history motivation
When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.
Edward R. MurrowA satellite has no conscience.
Edward R. MurrowMots clés satellite
To be persuasive we must be believable;
to be believable we must be creditable;
to be credible we must be truthful.
Mots clés truthfulness persuasion
We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our own history and our doctrine and remember that we are 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.... There is no way for a citizen of the Republic to abdicate his responsibility.
Edward R. Murrow"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."
- Edward R. Murrow
Mots clés politics-of-the-united-states
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men ... We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
Edward R. MurrowIt is almost impossible to substitute intelligence for experience.
Edward R. MurrowNo one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.
Edward R. MurrowMots clés politics history tyranny controversy terrorism treason subversion disloyalty mccarthyism joseph-mccarthy red-scare
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