black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it’s time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.

Bill Moyers

In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a “war on terror” – exactly what, pray tell, is that?
BILL MOYERS

Mind Police Tracking War
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House – as Brutus loved Caesar.
BILL MOYERS

Afternoon House Limit Term
When we were covering the 2008 campaign I told my young African American colleagues that despite the historical significance of victory, Barack Obama was going to break their hearts.
BILL MOYERS

Believe Couple Heart
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.
BILL MOYERS

Thinking Warrior Winning
We seem to prefer a comfortable lie to the uncomfortable truth. We punish those who point out reality, and reward those who provide us with the comfort of illusion. Reality is fearsome .. but experience tells us that more fearsome yet is evading it.
BILL MOYERS

Comfort Lying Reality
How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
BILL MOYERS

Children Helping Parents
The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it’s very limited in what it can do logically. It’s an existential experience – there and then gone.
BILL MOYERS

Commitment Gone Information
News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
BILL MOYERS

News People Want
Although I was brought up in a culturally and religious conservative culture, as a Baptist I was taught that no one has the right to subpoena your conscience.
BILL MOYERS

Baptists Culture Religious
The rich today are richer, there are more of them, they have round-the-clock propaganda factories in Rupert Murdoch’s empire and rightwing talk radio, and corporate media have their back.
BILL MOYERS

Empires Media Radio
…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
BILL MOYERS

Integrity Interest Public Interest
I approach the end of my own long run believing more strongly than ever that the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined … .
BILL MOYERS

Approach Joined Journalism Strong
Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
BILL MOYERS

Charity Justice Tables
You can’t have a people’s democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
BILL MOYERS

Democracy Long People
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
BILL MOYERS

Imagination Self War
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

Gorges Unyielding War

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it’s time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it’s time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bill Moyers Quotes