6 Quotes By Bill Moyers


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 on experience

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
Bill Moyers on failure

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
Bill Moyers on freedom

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
Bill Moyers on history

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
Bill Moyers on imagination

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