Bill Moyers Quotes
"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."
- Bill Moyers
(Related: Home, Day, Universe)
"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."
- Bill Moyers
(Related: Cause, Fight, Right)
"We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do."
- Bill Moyers
"We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings."
- Bill Moyers
(Related: Society, Care, Children, Indifference, Television)
"This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons."
- Bill Moyers
(Related: Time, First, Public, Years)
"The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone."
- Bill Moyers
(Related: Experience, Commitment, Emotion, Information, Television)
"Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of."
- Bill Moyers
(Related: Dream, Freedom, Secrecy)
"Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people."
- Bill Moyers
(Related: People, Ethics, Strangers)
"As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher."
- Bill Moyers
(Related: Thought, Teachers)
"War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination."
- Bill Moyers
(Related: Imagination, War, Failure, Self)
"America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up."
- Bill Moyers
(Related: America, Benefits, Corporate, Democracy, Tax, Now, Tax cuts)
"Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism."
- Bill Moyers
(Related: Politics, Ideas, Idealism)
"Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous."
- Bill Moyers
(Related: Creativity)
"Democracy belongs to those who exercise it."
- Bill Moyers
(Related: Democracy, Exercise)
"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."
- Bill Moyers
(Related: Government, Democracy, May)
"For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington."
- Bill Moyers
(Related: Power, Time, History, First, Ideology, Theology, Washington)
"Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life."
- Bill Moyers
(Related: Life)
"I own and operate a ferocious ego."
- Bill Moyers
(Related: Ego)
"I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies."
- Bill Moyers
(Related: Work, Faults)