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List of Edward R. Murrow Quotes
We have put together a list of some of the best Quotes that Written by Edward R. Murrow
Edward R. Murrow
Total Quotes 77
Fame Is Morally Neutral.
Fame
Don't Be Deluded Into Believing That The Titular Heads Of The Networks Control What Appears On Their Networks. They All Have Better Taste.
Believe
Politics
Taste
A Thing Of Orchestrated Hell-a Terrible Symphony Of Light And Flame.
Light
Flames
Symphony
I Am Entirely Persuaded That The American Public Is More Reasonable, Restrained And More Mature Than Most Of Our Industry's Program Planners Believe.
Believe
America
Mature
Tuberculosis, Starvation, Fatigue, And There Are Many Who Have No Desire To Live.
Desire
Tuberculosis
Buchenwald
In Order To Progress, Radio Need Only Go Backward, To The Time When Singing Commercials Were Not Allowed On News Reports, When There Was No Middle Commercial On A News Report, When Radio Was Rather Proud, Alert And Fast.
Order
Singing
Progress
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.
Air
Yesterday
Gone
A Satellite Has No Conscience.
Science
Satellites
Conscience
A Blur Of Blinks, Taps, Jiggles, Pivots And Shifts ... The Body Language Of A Man Wishing Urgently To Be Elsewhere.
Men
Wish
Body
We Are To A Large Extent An Imitative Society.
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.
Men
Fire
Discovery
It Has Always Seemed To Me The Real Art In This Business Is Not So Much Moving Information Or Guidance Or Policy Five Or 10,000 Miles. That Is An Electronic Problem. The Real Art Is To Move It The Last Three Feet In Face To Face Conversation.
Art
Real
Moving
I Have Said, And I Believe, That Potentially We Have In This Country A Free Enterprise System Of Radio And Television Which Is Superior To Any Other. But To Achieve Its Promise, It Must Be Both Free And Enterprising. There Is No Suggestion Here That Networks Or Individual Stations Should Operate As Philanthropies. But I Can Find Nothing In The Bill Of Rights Or In The Communications Act Which Says That They Must Increase Their Net Profits Each Year, Lest The Republic Collapse.
Country
Communication
Believe
All Babies Look Like Winston Churchill.
Baby
Looks
It Appeared That Most Of The Men And Boys Had Died Of Starvation; They Had Not Been Executed. But The Manner Of Death Seemed Unimportant. Murder Had Been Done At Buchenwald. God Alone Knows How Many Men And Boys Have Died There During The Last Twelve Years.
Boys
Men
Years
People Say Conversation Is A Lost Art; How Often I Have Wished It Were.
Funny
Art
Communication
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.
Color
Aggravation
Numbers
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.
Country
Voice
Understanding
Speaking Of Sir Winston Churchill: He Mobilized The English Language And Sent It Into Battle.
Battle
Language
English Language
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.
Life
Dream
Memories
Except For Those Who Think In Terms Of Pious Platitudes Or Dogma Or Narrow Prejudice (and Those Thoughts We Aren't Interested In), People Don't Speak Their Beliefs Easily, Or Publicly.
Thinking
People
Prejudice
Of This Be Wary. Honor And Fame Are Often Regarded As Interchangeable. Both Involve An Appraisal Of The Individual. . . But I Suggest This Difference. Fame Is Morally Neutral.
Differences
Honor
Fame
We Are In The Same Tent As The Clowns And The Freaks - That's Show Business.
Business
Tents
Freak
Seldom, If Ever, Has A War Ended Leaving The Victors With Such A Sense Of Uncertainty And Fear, With Such A Realization That The Future Is Obscure And That Survival Is Not Assured.
War
Leaving
Survival
Born: April 25, 1908
Died: April 27, 1965
Occupation: Journalist
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