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Edward R. Murrow
American
Journalist
About the author
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
Edward R. Murrow,
American
Journalist
#Nation
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
Edward R. Murrow,
American
Journalist
#America
#Soul
#Opposition
#Dissent
We cannot make good news out of bad practice.
Edward R. Murrow,
American
Journalist
#Practice
#News
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
Edward R. Murrow,
American
Journalist
#Home
#Freedom
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow,
American
Journalist
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.
Edward R. Murrow,
American
Journalist
#Information
The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.
Edward R. Murrow,
American
Journalist
#Want
#Respect
#Country
#Men
#Order
#Affection
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
Edward R. Murrow,
American
Journalist
#Obvious
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.
Edward R. Murrow,
American
Journalist
#Will
#End
#Old
#Computer
People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
Edward R. Murrow,
American
Journalist
#People
#Art
#Conversation
Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
Edward R. Murrow,
American
Journalist
#People
Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
Edward R. Murrow,
American
Journalist
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
Edward R. Murrow,
American
Journalist
#Mistake
#Obligation
A satellite has no conscience.
Edward R. Murrow,
American
Journalist
#Conscience
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
Edward R. Murrow,
American
Journalist
#History
#Difficulty
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
Edward R. Murrow,
American
Journalist
Fame is morally neutral.
Edward R. Murrow,
American
Journalist
#Fame
Good night, and good luck.
Edward R. Murrow,
American
Journalist
#Night
#Luck
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. Murrow,
American
Journalist
#Christ
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. Murrow,
American
Journalist
#World
#End
#Voice
Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.
Edward R. Murrow,
American
Journalist
#Information
#Ideas
#Importance
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.
Edward R. Murrow,
American
Journalist
#Nothing
#Tomorrow
#Yesterday