I take “We, the People” seriously because I don’t know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.
BILL MOYERSI really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
More Bill Moyers Quotes
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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
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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.
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Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias.
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Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
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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.
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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 … .
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Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House – as Brutus loved Caesar.
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Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
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Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is not static.
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Those rules divide the world into Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, and allow journalists to pretend they have done their job if instead of reporting the truth behind the news, they merely give each side an opportunity to spin the news.
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Rockefeller was born to it, and he has made the most of it. But what some critics see as a vast international conspiracy, he considers a circumstance of life and just another day’s work… In the world of David Rockefeller it’s hard to tell where business ends and politics begins
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When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
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The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they’ve won.
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Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats – the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms – while the field hands are left with the scraps.
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