Eric Sevareid famous quotes

03-28-2025

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

#Christmas #Years #One Day
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
-- Eric Sevareid

#Humor #Honor #World
The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.
-- Eric Sevareid

#America #Anxiety #Steel
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

#Boys #Men #Differences
Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.
-- Eric Sevareid

#Trust #Men #Errors
The best way to get thrown out of the columnists' club is to be uncertain about anything whatsoever on this earth.
-- Eric Sevareid

#Media #Earth #Clubs
It is perfectly clear that people, given no alternative, will choose tyranny over anarchy, because anarchy is the worst tyranny of all... The special nature of liberties is that they can be defended only as long as we still have them. So the very first signs of their erosion must be resisted, whether the issue be domestic surveillance by the Army, so-called preventive detention, or the freedom of corporate television, or that of a campus newspaper.
-- Eric Sevareid

#Army #Issues #Erosion
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.
-- Eric Sevareid

#Cities #America #House
Consultant: an ordinary guy more than 50 miles from home.
-- Eric Sevareid

#Knowledge #Home #Guy
You can't know who you are, as a nation or a people, unless you know where you've been.
-- Eric Sevareid

#People #Who You Are
The chief source of problems is solutions.
-- Eric Sevareid

#Problem #Source #Chiefs
Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.
-- Eric Sevareid

#Wisdom #President #Essentials
Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend.
-- Eric Sevareid

#Dream #Brotherhood #Profit
No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.
-- Eric Sevareid

#Suicide #Men #Meals
Saints are usually killed by their own people.
-- Eric Sevareid

#People #Religion #Saint
Most problems are caused by solutions.
-- Eric Sevareid

#Problem #Solutions
People, if given the choice between anarchy and dictatorship, will always choose dictatorship because anarchy is the worst dictatorship of all.
-- Eric Sevareid

#People #Choices #Anarchy
Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.
-- Eric Sevareid

#Ducks #Executives
Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.
-- Eric Sevareid

#Boys #Men #Order
The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.
-- Eric Sevareid

#Hallmark #Distinguished
For children, Christmas is anticipation. For adults, Christmas is memory.
-- Eric Sevareid

#Christmas #Children #Memories
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

#Bravery #Principles #Fur
I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.
-- Eric Sevareid

#Voice #Worry #Never Quit
There are only two kinds of people in the world, suckers and people that can be had. Everyone can be had, but a sucker will always bet you $50 that he can't be had. Maybe magicians are around to remind us we can all be had, so we don't become suckers.
-- Eric Sevareid

#Two #People #Magic
I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.
-- Eric Sevareid

#Tomorrow #Pessimist #Optimist
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.
-- Eric Sevareid

#Courage #Freedom #Mean
The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a 'calling.'
-- Eric Sevareid

#Jobs #People #Calling

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