Bill Moyers Quotes - Page 3

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• But there is nothing idealized or romantic about the difference between a society whose arrangements roughly serve all its citizens (something otherwise known as social justice) and one whose institutions have been converted into a stupendous fraud. That can be the difference between democracy and plutocracy.

  Bill Moyers

  Differences, Justice, Democracy

  "The Great American Class War" by Bill Moyers, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2013.

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• I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing the health and lives of those in the river valleys to short-term profit, and I see a link between that process and the stock-market frenzy which scorns long-term investments-genuine savings-in favor of quick turnovers and speculative bubbles whose inevitable bursting leaves insiders with stuffed pockets and millions of small stockholders, pensioners, and employees out of work, out of luck, and out of hope.

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  Sacrifice, Rivers, Work Out

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• Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government. The White House, the Congress and, increasingly, the judiciary, reflect their interests. We appear to have a government run by remote control from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and the American Petroleum Institute. To hell with everyone else.

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  Running, Government, White

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• The thing about war is that once it's triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants.

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  War, Gorges, Unyielding

  "Bill Moyers on His Legendary Journalism Career: 'Democracy Should Be a Brake on Unbridled Greed and Power'". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, www.democracynow.org. June 8, 2011.

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• The property qualifications for federal office that the framers of the Constitution expressly chose to exclude for demonstrating an unseemly "veneration of wealth " are now de facto in force and higher than the Founding Fathers could have imagined.

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  Father, Office, Constitution

  "Moyers on Democracy". Book by Bill D. Moyers. Introduction, p. 3, 2008.

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• Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

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  Creativity, Creative, Piercings

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• What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.

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  Fighting, Doe, Causes

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• You only have to glance at the daily news to see how passions are stirred by claims of exclusive loyalty to one's own kin, one's own clan, one's own country, and one's own church. These ties that bind are vital to our communities and our lives, but they can also be twisted into a noose.

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  Loyalty, Country, Passion

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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. Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance.

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  Commitment, Order, Sick

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• In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness

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  Marriage, Wedding, Forgiving

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.250, Anchor

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• Democracy 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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  Running, Government, Long

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• I've always thought the American eagle needed a left wing and a right wing. The right wing would see to it that economic interests had their legitimate concerns addressed. The left wing would see to it that ordinary people were included in the bargain. Both would keep the great bird on course. But with two right wings or two left wings, it's no longer an eagle and it's going to crash.

  Bill Moyers

  Eagles, Wings, Two

  "Bill Moyers Responds to CPB’s Tomlinson Charges of Liberal Bias: 'We Were Getting it Right, But Not Right Wing'". www.democracynow.org. May 16, 2005.

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• If you think there is freedom of the press in the United States, I tell you there is no freedom of the press... They come out with the cheap shot. The press should be ashamed of itself. They should come to both sides of the issue and hear both sides and let the American people make up their minds

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  Equality, Thinking, Media Control

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• A free press is one where it's okay to state the conclusion you're led to by the evidence. One reason I'm in hot water is because my colleagues and I at NOW didn't play by the conventional rules of Beltway journalism. 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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  Jobs, Opportunity, Play

  "Bill Moyers Responds to CPB’s Tomlinson Charges of Liberal Bias: 'We Were Getting it Right, But Not Right Wing'". www.democracynow.org. May 16, 2005.

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• I really believe that coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

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  Spiritual, Believe, Fate

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• It's the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there's still hope.

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  Thinking, People, Grassroots

  Source: progressive.org

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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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  Children, Television, Care

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• As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

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  Teacher, Teaching, Students

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• When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.

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  Education, Home, Learning

  Bill D. Moyers (1989). “A World of Ideas: Conversations with Thoughtful Men and Women about American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping Our Future”, Doubleday Books

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• There's hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him.

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  People, President, Pills

  Source: progressive.org

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• Democracy doesn't begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls 'The Patriot's Dream.

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  Dream, Fighting, Blood

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• In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a "war on terror" - exactly what, pray tell, is that? - 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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  War, Police, Mind

  "The Meaning of Freedom". Sol Feinstone Lecture at the United States Military Academy, November 15, 2006. "Moyers on Democracy", p. 78, 2008.

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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; allow our leaders to use the fear of terrorism to make us afraid of the truth; cease to think and reason together, allowing others to tell what's in God's mind.

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  Warrior, Winning, Thinking

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• News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.

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  People, News, Want

  "Bill Moyers Responds to CPB’s Tomlinson Charges of Liberal Bias: 'We Were Getting it Right, But Not Right Wing'". www.democracynow.org. May 16, 2005.

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• Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.

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  Inspirational, Giving, Advice

  Bill Moyers (2012). “Healing and the Mind”, p.319, Anchor

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