Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.
BILL MOYERSTheology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality.
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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.
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You can’t have a people’s democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
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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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News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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I take “We, the People” seriously because I don’t know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.
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Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people still don’t go hungry, unschooled or sick without care.
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How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
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Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
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Jon Stewart is a remarkable satirist and parodist in the vein of Mark Twain, because Jon Stewart understands what Mark Twain knew, which is that the truth goes down more easily in a democracy when it’s marinated in humor.
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In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life – one’s own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough.
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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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Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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We don’t care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
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Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality.
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