Best Quotes by Eric Sevareid (Top 10)
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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.
Eric Sevareid
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Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
Eric Sevareid
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Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.
Eric Sevareid
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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,
Eric Sevareid
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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.
Eric Sevareid
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The chief cause of problems is solutions.
Eric Sevareid
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With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent society, with relentless single-minded energy, is turning our cities, most of suburbia and most of our roadways into the most affluent slum on earth.
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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."
Eric Sevareid
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I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.
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I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.
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More Eric Sevareid Quotes
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Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.
Eric Sevareid
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Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.
Eric Sevareid
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Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend
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The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.
Eric Sevareid