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Men Quotes by Arthur Miller
- And old Dave, he'd go up to his room, y'understand, put on his green velvet slippers - I'll never forget - and pick up his…
- Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life?. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding…
- Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
- Those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of men. This group…
- By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route…
- I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.
- Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house - in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's…
- My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or…
- In America, any man who is not a reactionary in his views is open to the charge of alliance with the Red hell.
- Nobody dast blame this man. For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he…
- I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and now at seventy-two…
- An idol tells people exactly what to believe, God presents them with choices they have to make for themselves. The difference is far from insignificant;…
- The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say…
- A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.
- You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.
- I don't say he's a great man. Willie Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the…
- Sometimes...it's better for a man just to walk away. But if you can't walk away? I guess that's when it's tough.
- A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.
- 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…
- When any creativity becomes useful, it is sucked into the vortex of commercialism, and when a thing becomes commercial, it becomes the enemy of man.
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
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