Quote #61
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
More from Edward R. Murrow
- Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
- People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
- Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.
- To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.
- 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.
- We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
- 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 infl…
- When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and t…