457 Quotes by Arthur Miller

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! That’s the principle ; the only one we live by.

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn’t very difficult.

When the law is wrong it’s because it’s unnatural, but in this case it is natural and a river will drown you if you buck it now.

Flight Reservation Systems decide whether or not you exist. If your information isn’t in their database, then you simply don’t get to go anywhere.

I should hang ten thousand that dared to rise against the law, and an ocean of salt tears could not melt the resolution of the statutes.

The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order – for meaning.

The human reality of what happens to millions is only for God to grasp; but what happens to individuals is another matter and within the range of mortal understanding.

You want somethin’ else, Eddie, and you can never have her!

HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit.