Arthur Miller Quotes

Mother: What more can we be?

Chris: You can be better! Once and for all you can know there's a universe of people outside and you're responsible to it, and unless you know that you threw away your son because that's how he died.

The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell.

Pontius Pilate! God will not let you clean your hands of this!

There might be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it.

They tried to escape technology, to stay away from that and still have relationships with their fellow humans. Very difficult.

There is prodigious fear in seeking loose spirits

If she is innocent! Why do you never wonder if Parris be innocent, or Abigail? Is the accuser always holy now? Were they born this morning as clean as God's fingers? I'll tell you what's walking Salem — vengeance is walking Salem. We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!

When I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich.

I don’t know what the future is. I don’t know-what I’m supposed to want.

(Looking at the letter in his hand) Then what is this if it isn’t telling me? Sure, [Larry] was my son. But I think to him [the pilots killed] were all my sons. And I guess they were, I guess they were

If personal meaning, in this cheer leader society, lies in success, then failure must threaten identity itself.

It is the essence of power that it accrues to those with the ability to determine the nature of the real.

On the road I want to grab you sometimes and just kiss the life outa you

Political opposition... is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.

HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit