649 Quotes by Tom Stoppard

The thing about talking about human rights is that when one bears in mind the sharp end of it, one does not want to worry too much about semantics.

I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.

For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him again for what I had just received, and then we lost touch and I suddenly thought, where is he now

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.

I wanted to be in the theater. It is simply the way I felt.

The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.

The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world.

War is capitalism with the gloves off.

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.