457 Quotes by Arthur Miller

Power was fundamentally an idiot who at all cost had to be restrained by a net of rules so basic and so clear that even he could be instructed in them before, in one of his rages, he tore down the house.

My dreams of many years had simply become too damned real, and the reality was less than the dream and lacked all dedication.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves

He was talking as though someone we both knew had just died, and it filled me with happiness. Such is art.

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.

Do I raise the dead when I put him behind bars? Then what'll I do it for? We used to shoot a man who acted like a dog, but honor was real there, you were protecting something. But here? This is the land of the great big dogs, you don't love a man here, you eat him!

When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regardded as a hostile area, that all gods were useful and essentially friendly to man despite occasional lapsesl when we see the steady methodical inculcation into humanity of the idea of man's worthlesseness - until redeemed - the necessity of the Devil may become evident as a weapon, a weapon designed and used time and time again in every age to whip men into a surrender to a particular church or church state.