6 Edward R. Murrow Quotes on Courage

Edward R. Murrow quotes on courage

4. No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.

24. We hardly need to be reminded that we are living in an age of confusion - a lot of us have traded in our beliefs for bitterness and cynicism or for a heavy package of despair, or even a quivering portion of hysteria. Opinions can be picked up cheap in the market place while such commodities as courage and fortitude and faith are in alarmingly short supply.

29. All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.

30. No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.

35. This just might do nobody any good. At the end of this discourse a few people may accuse this reporter of fouling his own comfortable nest, and your organization may be accused of having given hospitality to heretical and even dangerous thoughts. But the elaborate structure of networks, advertising agencies and sponsors will not be shaken or altered. It is my desire, if not my duty, to try to talk to you journeymen with some candor about what is happening to radio and television.

70. What separated Murrow from the pack was courage.