You're not such a dog as you think you are..

Howard Beale is processed, instant God, and right now it looks like he might just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore..

Ma, sooner or later there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts. And one fact I've got to face is whateverit is women like, I….

I'm a human being, god-dammit. My life has value!.

Television is not the truth! Television is a goddamned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a travelling troupe of acrobats and story-….

The best thing that can happen is for the theme to be nice and clear from the beginning..

This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings..

Television is democracy at its ugliest..

Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without..

I don't know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about truth. I just want to know the momentary fact of things. Life isn't good, or bad, or….

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it ….

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment..

We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of busi….

Don't think of it as art, think of it as work..

It's not greed and ambition that makes wars--it's goodness. Wars are always fought for the best of reasons, for liberation or manifest destiny, alway….

All my brothers, my brothers-in-law, they're always telling me what a good-hearted guy I am. You don't get to be good-hearted by accident. You get ki….

I'm afraid to look in the mirror. I'm afraid I'm going to see an old lady with white hair, just like the old ladies in the park. Alittle bundle in a ….

It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is t….

It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memoria….

Stop thinking about writing as art. Think of it as work. If you’re an artist, whatever you do is going to be art. If you’re not an artist, at least y….

Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park..