Eric Sevareid Quotes
The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.
Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been , that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.
Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.
You can't know who you are, as a nation or a people, unless you know where you've been.
Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make."
I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.
It is only people with a sense of personal responsibility who can help others. It is only people with a sense of personal responsibility who can be helped in a lasting way.
The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a 'calling.'
The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.
People, if given the choice between anarchy and dictatorship, will always choose dictatorship because anarchy is the worst dictatorship of all.
The best way to get thrown out of the columnists' club is to be uncertain about anything whatsoever on this earth.
Words themselves become beings, sentences becomenatural vegetation to be guided by the gardener's hands.
