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 More Quotes by Edward R. Murrow More Quotes From Edward R. Murrow 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. Edward R. Murrow leaving survival war Most of them [American politicians] are men of undoubted charm, ability, and incredible energy, and yet too often they lack purpose or appetite for anything beyond their own careers. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved. Edward R. Murrow careers energy men People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were. Edward R. Murrow communication funny art The best speakers know enough to be scared…the only difference between the pros and the novices is that the pros have trained the butterflies to fly in formation. Edward R. Murrow novices butterfly differences We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks - that's show business. Edward R. Murrow tents freak business I have no feud, either with my employers, any sponsors, or with the professional critics of radio and television. But I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage. Edward R. Murrow our-society radio two The politician is trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him. Edward R. Murrow cutting political art 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 aggravation color numbers 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. Edward R. Murrow communication believe country We're not descended from fearful men - not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular. Edward R. Murrow due-process-of-law writing men We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. Edward R. Murrow due-process-of-law conformity political A satellite has no conscience. Edward R. Murrow satellites conscience science A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere. Edward R. Murrow body wish men All babies look like Winston Churchill. Edward R. Murrow baby looks Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. Edward R. Murrow honesty hate integrity 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 communication technology language 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. Edward R. Murrow fire discovery men I am frightened by the imbalance, the constant striving to reach the largest possible audience for everything; by the absence of a sustained study of the state of the nation. Edward R. Murrow imbalance study absence 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. Edward R. Murrow men boys years Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle. Edward R. Murrow english-language battle language
