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1 " Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. "
― Edward R. Murrow
2 " War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. "
― Edward R. Murrow , This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of One Hundred Thoughtful Men and Women
3 " We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. "
4 " No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices. "
5 " It is not necessary to remind you of 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. All of these things you know. "
6 " Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you're any wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar. "
7 " Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices--just recognize them. "
8 " We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it. "
9 " The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue. "
10 " 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. "
11 " 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. "
12 " Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions. "
13 " 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. "
14 " 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. "
15 " We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business. "
16 " A satellite has no conscience. "
17 " To be persuasive we must be believable;to be believable we must be creditable;to be credible we must be truthful. "
18 " Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation. "
19 " "A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."- Edward R. Murrow "
― Edward R. Murrow , In Search Of Light: The Broadcasts Of Edward R. Morrow, 1938-1961
20 " I simply cannot accept that there are, on every story, two equal and logical sides to an argument. "
