"Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action,……" — Lillian Hellman
"Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them."
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Lillian Hellman
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65 Quotes by Lillian Hellman
Lillian Hellman has 65 quotes on this site.
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No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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My father was often angry when I was most like him.
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it…
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Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became…
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Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.
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The writer's intention hasn't anything to do with what he achieves. The intent to earn money or the intent to…
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Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.…
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Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to…
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Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.
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I wanted to see what was there for me once, what is there for me now.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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