When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
BILL MOYERSIn 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.
More Bill Moyers Quotes
-
-
Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.
BILL MOYERS -
A people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda is less inclined to put up a fight, ask questions and be skeptical. And just as a democracy can die of too many lies, that kind of orthodoxy can kill us, too.
BILL MOYERS -
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
BILL MOYERS -
I’m the front man, I’m the man on camera, but there’s a whole team beyond me.
BILL MOYERS -
…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
BILL MOYERS -
Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
BILL MOYERS -
Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important to the health of democracy.
BILL MOYERS -
The delusional is no longer marginal.
BILL MOYERS -
Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance.
BILL MOYERS -
Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
BILL MOYERS -
There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
BILL MOYERS -
Unless you’re willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work with nuts going over every detail to make certain you’ve got it right, and then take hit after unfair hit accusing you of bias, there’s no use even trying.
BILL MOYERS -
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 -
The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it’s changing the conversation.
BILL MOYERS -
Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
BILL MOYERS