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We are a gutted generation, born in the depression and obsessed with prosperity.

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

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

I don't want to leave you alone. I want you to get mad.[ ... ]You've got to say 'I'm a human being, god dammit! My life has value!

I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.

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

The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor!

The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.

Americans don't want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed.

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

God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.

I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.

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

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

I'm a man without a corporation.

We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived ... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!

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

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

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

Television will do anything for a rating ... anything!