Bill Moyers Quotes About Opinions

• If being tolerant of differing opinions, if believing that America has to make it as a pluralistic nation, if being civil, if that makes you a liberal, I plead guilty.

  Bill Moyers

  Religioso, Creer, América

• Un pueblo inconsciente, un pueblo adoctrinado, un pueblo alimentado sólo con información y opiniones partidistas que confirman sus propios prejuicios, un pueblo convertido en obeso mórbido de mente y espíritu por la comida basura de la propaganda está menos inclinado a oponer resistencia, a hacer preguntas y a ser escéptico. Y del mismo modo que una democracia puede morir por demasiadas mentiras, ese tipo de ortodoxia también puede matarnos.

  Bill Moyers

  Lying, Fighting, Media

  Bill Moyers (2008). “Moyers on Democracy”, p.218, Anchor

• On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the traffic and weather. What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths - half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.

  Bill Moyers

  Lying, Home, Weather

  "Now" on PBS with David Brancaccio, www.pbs.org. December 17, 2004.

• Unless you're willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work with nuts going over every detail to make certain you've got it right, and then take hit after unfair hit accusing you of bias, there's no use even trying. You have to love it, and I do. You just hope it strikes a spark somewhere in the critical mass of public opinion and helps some people to resist further the seductions of political and corporate advertising.

  Bill Moyers

  Fighting, Nuts, Blue

  Fuente: progressive.org

• 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

  Class, Political, Favors

  Fuente: progressive.org

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