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.
BILL MOYERSDemocracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn’t.
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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 don’t care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
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What we need is what the ancient Israelites called hochma – the science of the heart…the capacity to see, to feel, and then to act as if the future depended on you. Believe me, it does.
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Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
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Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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People who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
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When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
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Capitalism is out of control, thanks in no small part to Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision which said that a corporation is a person, even though it doesn’t eat, drink, make love, sing, raise children or take care of aging parents.
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Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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To the mind-set of Interpol tracking down master criminals through intense global cooperation among nations, or the FBI stalking the Mafia, or local police determined to quell street gangs without leveling the entire neighborhood in the process.
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I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.
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If the watchdog doesn’t bark, how do you know there’s a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be a watchdog.
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When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
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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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