Talk:Edward R. Murrow

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• A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.

• 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.

• Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

• Fame is morally neutral.

• I have always been on the side of the heretics against those who burned them because the heretics so often turned out to be right. Dead, but right.

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

• Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major influence in making modern man what he is today.

• Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his dreams to life.

• Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.

• Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.

• Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

• People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

• The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

• To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

• We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
  • Variant: Dissension is not disloyalty. (These remarks are similar to the sourced remarks of March 9, 1954:. Edward R. Murrow#See It Now (1954))

• A nation of sheep begets a government of wolves. ([1] credited to French philosopher Bertrand de Jouvenel)
  • Variant: A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. (Abundant in image memes and from 2:10:20 to 2:11:30 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T76f7YnKk1U) ~ JasonCarswell (talk) 00:59, 16 May 2020 (UTC)