Morley Safer

"Power reveals not the best in us, but the most honest."

"The untold story haunts more than the story fully told."

"To think independently requires courage most lack."

"The bias we don't acknowledge is the one that controls us."

"History is written by those willing to ask why."

"The greatest service journalism provides is not answers, but better questions."

"Comfort breeds complacency; complacency breeds corruption."

"The story behind the story is usually the true story."

"We are all prisoners of our own perspective until we admit it."

"The pursuit of truth requires the willingness to be disappointed."

"Time reveals what haste conceals."

"The duty of the journalist is to complicate the simple."

"Power without accountability is just organized crime with better branding."

"The most effective propaganda is the truth, selectively presented."

"Understanding begins where certainty ends."

"The world changes when individuals stop accepting the unacceptable."

"Respect for the truth is respect for humanity itself."

"The unquestioned narrative is the narrative that controls you."

"Progress requires that we be willing to be wrong in service of being right."

"The story not told is the story that wins by default."