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> [History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillian-hellman/history-is-made-by-masses-of-people-one-man-or-ten-men-don-t-start/)

[Lillian Hellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lillian-hellman/)

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> [No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillian-hellman/no-one-can-argue-any-longer-about-the-rights-of-women-it-s-like/)

[Lillian Hellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lillian-hellman/)

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## Other authors on Earthquakes

## More by Lillian Hellman

> [failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillian-hellman/failure-in-the-theater-is-more-public-more-brilliant-more-unreal-than/)

[Lillian Hellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lillian-hellman/)

> [Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillian-hellman/failure-in-the-theater-is-more-dramatic-and-uglier-than-any-other/)

[Lillian Hellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lillian-hellman/)

> [A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillian-hellman/a-man-should-be-jailed-for-telling-lies-to-the-young/)

[Lillian Hellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lillian-hellman/)

> [I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillian-hellman/i-don-t-think-many-writers-like-their-best-known-piece-of-work/)

[Lillian Hellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lillian-hellman/)

> [I live in a room and I go to work and I play a game called getting through the day while you wait for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillian-hellman/i-live-in-a-room-and-i-go-to-work-and-i-play-a-game-called-getting/)

[LILLIAN HELLMAN](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lillian-hellman/)

> [There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillian-hellman/there-are-people-who-eat-the-earth-and-eat-all-the-people-on-it-like/)

[Lillian Hellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lillian-hellman/)

> [Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillian-hellman/nothing-you-write-if-you-hope-to-be-good-will-ever-come-out-as-you/)

[Lillian Hellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lillian-hellman/)

> [Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillian-hellman/decision-by-democratic-majority-vote-is-a-fine-form-of-government-but/)

[Lillian Hellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lillian-hellman/)

> [Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillian-hellman/haven-t-you-lived-in-the-south-long-enough-to-know-that-nothing-is/)

[Lillian Hellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lillian-hellman/)

> [We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillian-hellman/we-will-not-think-noble-because-we-are-not-noble-we-will-not-live-in/)

[Lillian Hellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lillian-hellman/)

> [It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillian-hellman/it-was-an-unspoken-pleasure-that-having-come-together-so-many-years/)

[Lillian Hellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lillian-hellman/)

> [Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillian-hellman/intellectuals-can-tell-themselves-anything-sell-themselves-any-bill/)

[Lillian Hellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lillian-hellman/)

> [Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillian-hellman/courtesy-is-breeding-breeding-is-an-excellent-thing-always-remember/)

[Lillian Hellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lillian-hellman/)

> [You lose your manners when you're poor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillian-hellman/you-lose-your-manners-when-you-re-poor/)

[Lillian Hellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lillian-hellman/)

> [Fashions in sin change.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillian-hellman/fashions-in-sin-change/)

[Lillian Hellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lillian-hellman/)

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