I take “We, the People” seriously because I don’t know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.
BILL MOYERSI can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.
More Bill Moyers Quotes
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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.
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Barack Obama seemed to think he could win over his enemies. He certainly seemed to believe too much in his own powers of persuasion. One thing’s for sure – he misunderstood the nature of his adversaries.
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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.
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Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
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Yet 91 percent think it’s “not likely” that its influence will be lessened. Think about that: People know what’s right to do yet don’t think it can or will be done.
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Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.
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I can’t speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
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Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
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For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
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Our children are being raised by appliances.
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When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
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I believe democracy requires a ‘sacred contract’ between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how the world really works.
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We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.
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David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage the flow of its capital.
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I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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