Good Night And Good Luck Quotes

Default is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

Do not go gentle into that good night.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another.

This instrument [radio] can teach. It can illuminate, yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it’s nothing but wires and lights in a box.

It’s hard these days to have a conversation, at least it is for me, about [Truman]Capote without “Good Night, and Good Luck” coming up in the same conversation.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.

Capote, of course, addressed very similar themes to Good Night and Good Luck. Both films are about determined journalists defying obstacles in a relentless pursuit of the truth. Needless to say, both are period pieces.

Do not go gently into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

We’re not descended from fearful men – not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.

In the US, the 50s and 60s marked the documentary’s golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering televison journalist Edward R Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck, produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme Hunger in America.

We will not be driven by fear … if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.

I think the best way to get a good night sleep is to work hard throughout the day. If you work hard and, of course, work out.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.