"Belief is a moral act for which the……" — Lillian Hellman

"Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible."

— Lillian Hellman

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65 Quotes by Lillian Hellman

Lillian Hellman has 65 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
My father was often angry when I was most like him.
Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it…
Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became…
Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.
The writer's intention hasn't anything to do with what he achieves. The intent to earn money or the intent to…
Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.…
Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to…
Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.
I wanted to see what was there for me once, what is there for me now.

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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