Sayings & Quotes

[Lilith7]

“Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.”
Edward R. Murrow


“Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.”

Edward R. Murrow

[Lilith7]

“The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.”
Edward R. Murrow

“Most truth's are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.”

Edward R. Murrow

[Lilith7]

“Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you're any wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.”
Edward R. Murrow


“If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.”
Edward R. Murrow

[Lilith7]

“We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.”
Edward R. Murrow


“I have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or prostitue.”
Rebecca West

[Lilith7]

“You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.”
Rebecca West

“The difference between men & women is that men are lunatics & women are idiots.”
Rebecca West

[Lilith7]

“When authoritarianism is on the rise, you can count on the richest, least vulnerable men on the planet to be the biggest cowards.”
Bradley Whitford

“80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on, who are afraid of death & insignificance & they won't let go.”
Barak Obama

[Lilith7]

"The world will try to convince you that art is luxury. It is not. Art is medicine. It heals in ways that cannot be measured or explained. It reaches places therapy cannot touch.What you do is not optional. It is essential.”
Stephen Fletcher

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
Elie Wiesel

[Lilith7]

“I swore never to be silent whenever & wherever human beings endure suffering & humiliation.”
Elie Wiesel

“Human suffering anywhere concerns men & women everywhere.”
Elie Wiesel