Edward R. Murrow Quotes

In wartime you never know what is going to happen, you never know whether you will still be around tomorrow, and that is a great leveller.

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

Fear–fear of war, fear of invasion, fear of plague and famine, that make it simply not worthwhile constructing things, or planting trees, or even planting next year's crops...

Wars: You know how you start, but you never know how you end.

In war, everything changes. You are very selective of what you do because everything you do can be the last thing you do in your life.

We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.

Henry Fonda one time said that every time he had a job, he thought it was gonna' be the last one. And, if you got any sense, you gotta' think that because, you know when somebody's gonna do a dip, some of 'em go pretty far down.

I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.

I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London.'

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

When there's a war, people get married.

And when Roger talks about the frightened ones running away from the bombs, I immediately thought of my days when I was young and I had to wear these gas masks.

In Afghanistan, life is so fragile; who knows what the next week will bring? That fragility really affects the way you're able to report, and the kind of stories people will tell you.

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

I think the brutality is important to convey as part of the story, to see how brutal it is to have these kids in battle with one another.

When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.

I think we were trying to get off Combat from the moment we were on Combat.

War is big business. It's a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels.

The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.

Uncertainty's not good for anybody.

We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.

It's what the Iraqi people are going through right now. They have encountered a victorious, hostile force-but, you know, there they still are. There their culture is, there their history is, they're not going anywhere.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

The events of war are subject to great uncertainty.

I have fought for many years. I have killed many men. I have never seen a foreigner die.