Quote

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.

Bill Moyers

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Bill Moyers
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: June 5
Former White House Press Secretary
Journalist
Hugo
Oklahoma
Billy Don Moyers
Billy Moyers
First
Circle
Salute
Enough
Circles
Tribe
Life
Embrace
Uniform
Necessary
Uniforms
Land
Flag
Peace
Tribes
War
Flags
Firsts
Patriotism

More quotes by Bill Moyers

Image
Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
Bill Moyers
Image
When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
Bill Moyers
Image
A producer is a saboteur who tries to infiltrate the passivity of viewers and to create impressions that are lasting.
Bill Moyers
Image
Our children are being raised by appliances.
Bill Moyers
Image
There's 1,000 ways into addiction 1,000 ways out.
Bill Moyers
Image
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
Image
Barack Obama strikes me as a man of strong principles and weak convictions - the kind of guy who would rather teach constitutional law than practice it, or who'd rather watch the match alone on TV than arm-wrestle his opponents.
Bill Moyers
Image
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.
Bill Moyers
Image
The delusional is no longer marginal.
Bill Moyers
Image
We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.
Bill Moyers
Image
The massive upward distribution of wealth engineered by our political class over the last few decades has solidified the plutocratic control of the rule-making machinery in Washington and state capitals.
Bill Moyers
Image
Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.
Bill Moyers
Image
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. You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
Bill Moyers
Image
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.
Bill Moyers
Image
The Supreme Court consistently favors organized money and the political privileges of the corporate class. We have a Senate that is more responsive to affluent constituents than to middle-class constituents, while the opinions of constituents in the bottom third of income distribution have no apparent effect at all on the Senate's roll call votes.
Bill Moyers
Image
Empty your knapsack of all adjectives, adverbs and clauses that slo your stride and weaken your pace. Travel light. Remember the most memorable sentences in the English language are also the shortest: The King is dead and Jesus wept.
Bill Moyers
Image
There is no more important struggle for American democracy than ensuring a diverse, independent and free media. Free Press is at the heart of that struggle.
Bill Moyers
Image
Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
Bill Moyers
Image
News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
Bill Moyers
Image
A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times?
Bill Moyers