The thing about war is that once it's triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants. Bill Moyers More Quotes by Bill Moyers More Quotes From Bill Moyers Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilization...Without it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility. Bill Moyers echoes teaching believe I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses. Bill Moyers strength pay might There's hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him. Bill Moyers pills president people The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined. Bill Moyers quality democracy media In fact, so much of life, as you know, is serendipitous. That's why you better be prepared at any time for anything, because it may happen to you. Bill Moyers be-prepared may facts I have seen hate born of fear, hate speaking in the name of God and truth, hate holding up a distorting mirror to fellow human beings. Bill Moyers hate mirrors names Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society. Bill Moyers citizens struggle ordinary Having lost faith in all else, zealots have nothing left but a holy cause to please a warrior God. They win if we become holy warriors, too; if we kill the innocent as they do; strike first at those who had not struck us; allow our leaders to use the fear of terrorism to make us afraid of the truth; cease to think and reason together, allowing others to tell what's in God's mind. Bill Moyers warrior winning thinking News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity. Bill Moyers news want people There is a historic strain of dominion theology which says, taking its references from the Psalms, that man is made just a little lower than God, and that we are the crown of creation. That interpretation has come at the expense of the one that says when God, in the story of Noah, intervened to save human life against the flood, against the acts of nature, He did not stop with human beings. He made sure that every kind of animal was represented twice on that ark. Bill Moyers ark animal men For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington. Bill Moyers monopoly first-time firsts When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind. Bill Moyers theology blind couple These are the now-endangered markers of a civilized society: legally ordained minimum wages, child labor laws, workers safety and compensation laws, pure foods and safe drugs, Social Security, Medicare and rules that promote competitive markets over monopolies and cartels. Bill Moyers safety law children I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing the health and lives of those in the river valleys to short-term profit, and I see a link between that process and the stock-market frenzy which scorns long-term investments-genuine savings-in favor of quick turnovers and speculative bubbles whose inevitable bursting leaves insiders with stuffed pockets and millions of small stockholders, pensioners, and employees out of work, out of luck, and out of hope. Bill Moyers sacrifice work-out rivers There is no more important struggle for American democracy than ensuring a diverse, independent and free media. Free Press is at the heart of that struggle. Bill Moyers independent struggle heart How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state? Bill Moyers democracy political soul The struggle of ordinary people for a decent living, for security, is as old as the republic, but it's taken on a new and urgent edge. Instead of shared prosperity our political system has now produced a winner-take-all economy. Bill Moyers taken struggle people Now Barack Obama, who campaigned for transparency, is the President defending secret negotiations on new trade agreements that are largely being written by corporate lawyers and lobbyists. He would give corporations the key to the treasury while he gets the authority to fast track another hammering of working people and the environment. Yet the only people who get a real tongue-lashing from this President's White House are progressives around town who dare to call him on the carpet for abandoning his promises. Bill Moyers real agreement white When I was growing up, I never heard anyone pray, "Give me this day my daily bread." It was always, "Give us this day our daily bread." That stuck. We're all in this together. Bill Moyers growing-up together giving Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have raised ignorance to ideology and stupefied an entire political party. No more roguish and rowdy band of predators ever did more to demean and despoil the democracy on whose carcass they feed. Bill Moyers political party ignorance
