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 * Respublica est consensus iuris et communio utilitatis
 * The Republic is a common law and the common good
 * Suspected confusion of De Re Publica, Book I, section 39: Est igitur, inquit Africanus, res publica res populi, populus autem non omnis hominum coetus quoquo modo congregatus, sed coetus multitudinis iuris consensu et utilitatis communione sociatus.

 * Si vis doceri, doce
 * If you want to be taught, teach
 * Note: Dubious

 * Ut aegroto, dum anima est, spes esse dicitur, sic ego, quoad Pompeius in Italia fuit, sperare non destiti haec,
 * As in the case of a sick man one says, “while there is life, there is hope”, so, as long as Pompey was in Italy, I did not cease to hope.
 * Epistulae ad Atticum (Letters to Atticus) Book IX, Letter X, section 3
 * While Cicero ‘’said’’ the full sentence, the sentence itself makes clear that the oft quoted bold text did not orignate with him. Compare: “While there's life there's hope, and only the dead have none.” Theocritus, Idyll 4, line 42
 * The bold text may be the basis for the misattribution to Cicero of dum spiro spero (while I breathe, I hope).

Translations

 * A bad peace is always better than a good war.
 * Potentially confusion of: Equidem ad pacem hortari non desino; quae vel iniusta utilior est quam iustissimum bellum cum civibus. "As for me, I cease not to advocate peace. It may be on unjust terms, but even so it is more expedient than the justest of civil wars."

 * A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

 * All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

 * Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

 * As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like."

 * Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

 * Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

 * Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

 * Freedom is participation in power. (This is a misquotation. There is no reference or source to the Latin original anywhere.)

 * Friends, though absent, are still present.
 * Friends, though absent, are present still.

 * He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

 * He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.

 * I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

 * If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.

 * In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.

 * In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

 * It is a great thing to know our vices.

 * It is a true saying that "One falsehood leads easily to another".

 * Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

 * Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. | The origin of this quote is often misattributed to Cicero; however, it is from Line 135-136 of Book 2, Satire 2 by Horace, "Quocirca vivite fortes, fortiaque adversis opponite pectora rebus" (Horace, 1909). The English translation that most closely matches the one misrepresented as Cicero's is from a collection of Horace's prose written by E. C. Wickham, "So live, my boys, as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts" (Wickham, 1903). References:  Horace. (1909). Horace the Satires. (E. P. Morris, Ed.) American Book Company. Retrieved May 24, 2018, from https://archive.org/details/horacesatires00hor; Wickham, E. (1903). Horace for English Readers. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Retrieved May 24, 2018, from https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/1421585.

 * Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

 * Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

I insist on the plural of gods, it is improper (I'm being polite) to use "God" as a tranlation here.
 * Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.
 * I went looking for the source of this quote (other than the game CivIV) and found nearly nothing. I couldn't find a quote that also included a source.  The closest nature/God quote I could find was from "On Old Age" "..I follow Nature, the best of guides, as I would a god, and am loyal to her commands." which isn't close at all. ~
 * This phrase is found verbatim in a book titled The Homilist; or, The pulpit for the people, conducted by D. Thomas. Vol. II, Excelsior Series, Vol. XLV, from commencement (LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL & CO., 1879), p. 266. He states: “Belief in a God Universal.— ‘Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of a God. For what nation or race of men is. there that has not, even without being taught, some idea of a God?’ (Nat. D. i. 16.) The Eternity of God.— ‘For the same nature that has given to us a knowledge of the God, has imprinted on our minds that He is eternal and happy. . . . For the gods always have been, and never were born.’ (Nat. D. i. 17, 25.) ‘Among men there is not a nation so savage and brutish, which, though it may not know what kind of a Being God ought to be, does not kuow that there must be one. From this we may infer, that, whoever, as it were, recollects and knows whence he is sprung, acknowledges the existence of a God.’ (Leg.i. 8.)”. Rev. Thomas gives the source as De Natura Deorum, I, 16, but it is clearly a mistranslation of the discussion of Epicurean thought which is set out immediately below this note in the original Latin. Cicero was concerned with “the gods” plural not with “a God” singular.
 * De Natura Deorum, Liber I, Pars XVI (book 1, chapter 16): talking about Epicurus, "Solus enim vidit primum esse deos, quod in omnium animis eorum notionem impressisset ipsa natura", only he (Epicurus) saw that the gods exist because in every soul these notions [the existence of the gods discussed in previous chapters] are imprinted by nature herself.
 * John Calvin, possibly also Sid Meier's source in this case, quotes tusc. disp. I, 13, 30; also nat. deor. I, 16, 43. It says: "Yet there is as, as the famous heathen says, no nation so barbaric, no tribe so savage, or the conviction is seated in her, that there is a God." (Institutie of onderwijzing in de Christelijke Godsdienst, trans. A. Sizoo.)

 * Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

 * The man who has a garden and a library has everything.

 * Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

 * Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

 * No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

 * Nothing quite new is perfect.

 * Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

 * Our thoughts are free.

 * Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

 * Strain every nerve to gain your point.

 * Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient.

 * The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.

 * The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

 * The man who backstabs an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret — that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

 * The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquility, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

 * The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.
 * In Charles Simmons, A Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker (1852), 273. Link: https://ia600501.us.archive.org/21/items/cihm_49525/cihm_49525.pdf. Couldn't find in anywhere else. Maybe should be inserted on the "disputed" section? --Pedro Gomes Andrade (talk) 02:22, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

 * There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

 * There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

 * Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

 * To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches.

 * We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.

 * What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

 * What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

 * When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

 * Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

 * The Six Mistakes of Man
 * 1) The illusion that personal gain is made up of crushing others.
 * 2) The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corrected.
 * 3) Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it.
 * 4) Refusing to set aside trivial preferences.
 * 5) Neglecting development and refinement of the mind, and not acquiring the habit of reading and study.
 * 6) Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.
 * The "Six Mistakes of Man" is spuriously attributed to Cicero. This list was part of a book written by Bernard Meador in 1914 entitled "Secrets of Personal Culture and Business Power", and advertised in various labor and trade union journals in the 1910's.  It was published as a list of 7 items, and "The Seven Mistakes of Life" was one of the chapters in this book that looked at each point in detail (see this advertisement from 1916 for reference).  Journals, books, and editorials don't start attributing this list to Cicero until the 1940's.  -HanClinto (talk)
 * The link above doesn't seem to point to the right advertisement. However the book is available online, and this page contains the Seven Mistakes. --ABehrens (talk) 06:24, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

 * You're trying to refute me by quoting things I've said or written myself. That's confronting me with documents that have already been sealed! You can reserve that method for people who only argue according to fixed rules. But I live from one day to the next! If something strikes me as probable, I say it; and that is how, unlike everyone else, I remain a free agent.

> This is in the Tusculan Disputations, Book 5 section 11. https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/cicero/tusculan-disputations/book5.html My translation has:

“What! You would convict me from my own words, and bring against me what I had said or written elsewhere. You may act in that manner with those who dispute by established rules. We live from hand to mouth, and say anything that strikes our mind with probability, so that we are the only people who are really at liberty.”

 * Poor man : Works. Rich man : Exploits the poor man.  Soldier: Defends both.  Taxpayer : Pays for all three.  Vagabond : Rests for all four, Drunkard : Drinks for all five.   Banker: Robs all six.  Lawyer : Deceives all seven. Doctor : Kills all eight.  Undertaker : Buries all nine.  Politician : Lives at the cost of all ten.
 * No known source in Cicero's works. First known appearance was in a post to an Occupy Wall Street web forum on August 4, 2012.

Bold quotes?
I see that some quotes are in bold, some are not. I'm curious as to the reason for the bold ones. Should this be fixed? Magnoliasouth 00:12, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
 * See the discussion at Village_pump ~ Kalki 00:26, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Discussion archived at Village_pump_archive_8 – OttoMäkelä (talk) 09:27, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

The Balanced Budget
Apparently, this quote was made up back in the 80s and attributed to Cicero. I removed it as such. I couldn't find any direct link to the Roman ever saying this. See link for more details: http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.quotations/browse_thread/thread/d0c75b3069548f17?tvc=2

The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

 * It's older than that; in fact from Taylor Caldwell's novel A Pillar of Iron (1965). This is now noted in the Misattributed section. --TLockyer (talk) 17:38, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

Legisset
is currently translated My Latin may be a bit rusty, but surely "legisset" should be "he read" rather than "he spoke"? I recognise that it's a fairly dynamic translation, but it seems to me that being a bit more literal here would prepare the reader for the explanation of the context which follows. Is the translation also quoted, or is it an in-house affair which can be altered without causing confusion? 81.33.108.177 19:00, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Quam cum suavissima et maxima voce legisset, admirantibus omnibus "quanto" inquit "magis miraremini, si audissetis ipsum!"
 * He spoke with a charming full voice, and when everyone was applauding, "how much", he asked, "would you have applauded if you had heard the original?"
 * I agree, I made the modification. Seven years later. Melior sero quam numquam. IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 17:50, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

The Enemy Within
What about the one that has made internet rounds in the past few years, "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious, but it cannot survive treason from within...." It's always attributed to Cicero, but I've never found any evidence to support that claim, or any context. Should it be under misattributed?

Reply: it is a heavy paraphrase of Cicero from a 1965 speech, "Cicero's Prognosis", by Florida Supreme Court Justice, Millard F. Caldwell, who spoke at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Inc (October 7-9, 1965, Columbus, Ohio). Here is the full text: http://www.aapsonline.org/brochures/cicero.htm

Reply 2: I'm not certain if Justice Millard Caldwell was aware that it was actually written by the novelist Talyor Caldwell. It is possible he believed Caldwell was actually quoting Cicero. But it is direct quotation from her book Pillar of Iron.

 * "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the carrier of the plague. You have unbarred the gates of Rome to him."
 * Taylor Caldwell in her novel based on the life of Cicero, A Pillar of Iron (1965), p. 661 in Open Road Media; Reprint edition (September 26, 2017).

More about this title (only one part of Ms. Caldwell's large body of historical fiction) can be found at MacKendrick, Paul. The Classical Journal, vol. 61, no. 4, 1966, pp. 183–184. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3294205.

In connection with Justice Caldwell from Florida, he may hve only recently read the novel. The novel had been featured in a favorable review in the America Bar Association Journal shortly before his speech. Sbarboro, Gerald L. American Bar Association Journal, vol. 51, no. 9, 1965, pp. 866–866. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25723359.

Gratitude
Cicero did not ever write anything that directly translates to “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” What he actually wrote was ''etenim, iudices, cum omnibus virtutibus me adfectum esse cupio, tum nihil est quod malim quam me et esse gratum et videri. haec enim est una virtus non solum maxima sed etiam mater virtutum omnium reliquarum''..

The second sentence translates to “For this virtue is not only the greatest of virtues, but also the mother of all others.”, but “this” is incorrectly substituted in many translations.

There are many later writings and early printings that make the connection, but not the direct substitution. Among them is the 1630 printing of Encyclopaedia septem tomis distincta, by Johann Heinrich Alsted. It reads: “Nam gratitudo, ut Cicero, ait pro Planco, virtus est non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum omnium reliquarum.” (Vol. 2., p. 1297, col. 2). That seems to be a fair summary and a direct reference to the word “gratitude”, but not even Alsted makes the direct substitution in the quotation.

The 1882 printing of Hoyt and Ward's The Cyclopædia of Practical Quotations, goes so far as to replace the original Latin haec with Gratus animus, and translates that to “A thankful heart” (p. 533, col. 2).

The 1884 printing of Day's Collacon substitutes “this” with “[a] grateful mind”. (p. 344, col. 1).

The switch to “gratitude” might have started as late as the late 20th century.

A current University of Chicago translation more accurately includes an original meaning lost in many later translations, that of not merely feeling grateful, but also of showing gratitude: “...the being and appearing grateful. For this one virtue is not only the greatest, but is also the parent of all the other virtues.”.

Thus, in this Wikipedia entry, I am substituting “Gratitude” with “Being and appearing grateful”. Danorton (talk) 21:02, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

What credibility is being lent to the validity of any of these statements? How is this page now than opinion?

Paceni? ((fixed))
"Equidem ad paceni hortari non desino"

As far as I can tell "paceni" is not a version of any Latin word, but when I google "equiem ad pacem hortari non desino", I get a ton of results. Would someone who knows more about Latin and/or about Cicero than me like to check and see if the quote on the main page should be altered?

 * You are correct. Clearly someone misread the letter "m" as "ni".  75.208.218.239 17:14, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

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Tommy Lee Jones

Tommy Lee Jones (born 15 September 1946) is an American actor and director.

Interview interview (1995)

 * Interview with [[w:Elmer Kelton|Elmer Kelton] in Interview magazine (June 1995)]

 * The old-timers thought, Well, fire's bad; we'll get rid of it. That was certainly a mistake. We have to get it back into the system somehow, in safe, controlled ways. That's what I'm into now.
 * On the errors of trying to completely eliminate forest fires, because of the disruption of growth cycles that make those that do occur more destructive and harder to control.

 * Create turf, save water. Those are the two main principles. And, you know, keep everything alive. Maintain a game habitat. That's important so that you have an entire system at work. Cattle are going to do better, oddly enough, if the birds are doing good and the deer are doing good. You try to manage the whole thing.
 * On his conservation principles.

 * I'm one of those people who feels that agriculture is a creative act. It's a very fine art — that's the way I approach it.

 * It makes me feel like a very special person, that I'm able to make my living with my imagination. I developed a big respect for my calling while I was in school, and it remains with me to this day.
 * On his acting career.

 * I'm really concerned about the quality of education in the United States. I think it's going down, and I don't think we spend enough money on it. It's unhealthy for our society that we remove ourselves more and more every day from books, from reading, from writing. All areas of education need more emphasis. I think we're a bit lazy here in America. I believe in the ideal of the classic liberal education, and I also think athletics are very important to the education of young people.

 * I refuse to be pessimistic. I don't believe in it. I hope that we can find a way to keep from destroying the earth.

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April Winchell

April Terri Winchell (born 4 January 1960 in New York, NY) is a voice actor, radio personality, and editor of Regretsy. She is the daughter of actor Paul Winchell.

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 * Out came Ms. Hilton in a Juicy track suit, chattering away like a gibbon on her jewel-encrusted cell phone. It was like magic, if magic were like a extra-strength laxative.
 * On Sunday December 5, 2004 at 7:34 pm from aprilwinchell.com.
 * Look at you, turning on me like a Pomeranian!
 * KFI-Los Angeles broadcast, October 8, 2000, available at AprilWinchell.com
 * Your body is a temple, whether you're a Jew or not.
 * KFI-Los Angeles radio broadcast, October 8, 2000, available at AprilWinchell.com
 * [Referring to actress Winona Ryder] "Get over it! Your 'wide-eyed, gamine, trembling chipmunk' thing!  Get over it!"
 * KFI-Los Angeles radio broadcast, October 15, 2000, available at AprilWinchell.com
 * [Referring to the radio station program director]: "I'll get him to call me some day, even if it means spilling cheese all over my brassiere at KFI, by gawd."
 * KFI-Los Angeles radio broadcast, January 28, 2001, 10:00 p.m. hour.
 * I'm doin' radio and there's a bag in front of me on the console that says 'Butt Stink' on it. Somethin' ain't right.
 * KFI-Los Angeles radio broadcast, January 28, 2001, 10:00 p.m. hour.
 * We've talked about coffee enemas and they're perfectly fine, except the doughnuts get stuck in the hose. And that just ruins everything.
 * KFI-Los Angeles radio broadcast, March 25, 2001, 11:00 p.m. hour.

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Arthur Miller

Arthur Asher Miller (17 October 1915 – 10 February 2005) was an American playwright, essayist, and author. Widely recognized as one of the most significant American playwrights of the 20th Century, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1949 for Death of a Salesman.
 * See also:
 * Death of a Salesman (1951 film)

1954–1968

 * I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.
 * After being refused a passport for his supposed disloyalty. The New York Herald Tribune (March 31, 1954)
 * I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
 *  The New York Herald Tribune (March 31, 1954)
 * The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
 * Harper's (August 1958)
 * 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 the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
 * Collected Plays (1958) Introduction, Section 1
 * 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 a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind; and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to himself so that he may touch others by virtue of the revelation of his mutuality with them. If only for this reason I regard the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.
 * Collected Plays (1958) Introduction, Section 2
 * 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 of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.
 * Collected Plays (1958) Introduction, Section 7
 * I cannot write anything that I understand too well. If I know what something means to me, if I have already come to the end of it as an experience, I can't write it because it seems a twice-told tale. I have to astonish myself, and that of course is a very costly way of going about things, because you can go up a dead end and discover that it's beyond your capacity to discover some organism underneath your feeling, and you're left simply with a formless feeling which is not itself art. It's inexpressible and one must leave it until it is hardened and becomes something that has form and has some possibility of being communicated. It might take a year or two or three or four to emerge.
 * "The State of the Theatre" an interview by Henry Brandon in Harpers 221 (November 1960)
 * A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance — you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
 * "The State of the Theatre" an interview by Henry Brandon in Harpers 221 (November 1960)
 * A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
 * As quoted in The Observer [London] (November 26, 1961)
 * My argument with so much of psychoanalysis, is the preconception that suffering is a mistake, or a sign of weakness, or a sign even of illness, when in fact, possibly the greatest truths we know have come out of people's suffering; that the problem is not to undo suffering or to wipe it off the face of the earth but to make it inform our lives, instead of trying to cure ourselves of it constantly and avoid it, and avoid anything but that lobotomized sense of what they call "happiness." There's too much of an attempt, it seems to me, to think in terms of controlling man, rather than freeing him. Of defining him rather than letting him go. It's part of the whole ideology of this age, which is power-mad.
 * 1963 interview, used in The Century of the Self (2002)
 * The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.
 * National Observer (January 20, 1964)
 * I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play — but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.
 * National Observer (January 20, 1964)
 * The job is to ask questions — it always was — and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
 * National Observer (January 20, 1964)
 * It is always and forever the same struggle: to perceive somehow our own complicity with evil is a horror not to be borne. … much more reassuring to see the world in terms of totally innocent victims and totally evil instigators of the monstrous violence we see all about us. At all costs, never disturb our innocence. But what is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.''' The perfection of innocence, indeed, is madness.
 * "With respect for Her Agony — but with Love" in LIFE magazine (February 7, 1964)
 * The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
 * Commenting on After the Fall (1964) in The Saturday Evening Post  (February 1, 1964)
 * Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
 * Life (February 7, 1964)
 * A playwright … is … the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about. He is a kind of psychic journalist, even when he's great.
 * Paris Review (Summer 1966)
 * Success, instead of giving freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country I've been to where people, when you come into a room and sit down with them, so often ask you, "What do you do?" And, being American, many's the time I've almost asked that question, then realized it's good for my soul not to know. For a while! Just to let the evening wear on and see what I think of this person without knowing what he does and how successful he is, or what a failure. We're ranking everybody every minute of the day.
 * Paris Review (Summer 1966)
 * If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise of everyday violence which people have become accustomed to, and the dehumanization of feelings, then the ultimate development on an organized social level is the concentration camp... The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.
 * Paris Review (Summer 1966)
 * You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
 * The Price (1967)
 * When irrational terror takes to itself the fiat of moral goodness somebody has to die. … No man lives who has not got a panic button, and when it is pressed by the clean white hand of moral duty, a certain murderous train is set in motion.
 * "It Could Happen Here - And Did," The New York Times (April 30, 1967); also in The Theater Essays of Arthur Miller (1996)
 * The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.
 * As quoted in Federalism and the French Canadians (1968) by Pierre Trudeau, p. 175

1974–2005

 * An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.
 * "The Year it Came Apart", New York magazine, Vol. 8, No. 1 (December 30, 1974 – January 6, 1975), p. 30
 * I understand his longing for immortality … Willy's writing his name in a cake of ice on a hot day, but he wishes he were writing in stone.
 * On Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, as quoted in The New York Times (May 9, 1984)
 * He wants to live on through something — and in his case, his masterpiece is his son… all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.
 * On Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, as quoted in The New York Times (May 9, 1984)
 * The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.
 * The New York Times (May 9, 1984)
 * The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down…. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality.
 * The New York Times (May 9, 1984)
 * In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks … on screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera. The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes. It isn't easy to do in the theater, but it's twice as hard in film.
 * On filming a television production of Death of a Salesman, as quoted in The New York Times (September 15, 1985)
 * If I see an ending, I can work backward.
 * The New York Times (February 9, 1986)
 * A playwright lives in an occupied country… And if you can't live that way you don't stay.
 * The New York Times (February 9, 1986)
 * Well, all the plays that I was trying to write … were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.
 * The New York Times (February 9, 1986)
 * I figure I've done what I could do, more or less, and now I'm going back to being a chemical; all we are is a lot of talking nitrogen, you know...
 * Leo in I Can't Remember Anything in Danger: Memory! : Two Plays (1987)
 * The Crucible became by far my most frequently produced play, both abroad and at home. Its meaning is somewhat different in different places and moments. I can almost tell what the political situation in a country is when the play is suddenly a hit there — it is either a warning of tyranny on the way or a reminder of tyranny just past.
 * Timebends : A Life (1987)
 * [On The Crucible] I was very moved by that play once again when the Royal Shakespeare Company did a production that toured the cathedrals of England. Then they took it to Poland and performed it in the cathedrals there, too. The actors said it changed their lives. Officials wept; they were speechless after the play, and everyone knew why. It was because they had to enforce the kind of repression the play was attacking. That made me prouder than anything I ever did in my life. The mission of the theater, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities.
 * From a 1987 interview; as quoted in "Arthur Miller, Moral Voice of American Stage, Dies at 89" by Marilyn Berger in The New York Times (February 11, 2005)
 * If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.
 * Without alienation, there can be no politics.
 * Marxism Today (January 1988)
 * I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
 * The Times (January 11, 1989)
 * That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?
 * His reply to a shoe manufacturer who had asked why Miller's job should be subsidized when his was not, as recounted at a London press conference. The Guardian (January 25, 1990)
 * Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the state has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied.
 * Why I Wrote 'The Crucible' in The New Yorker (October 21, 1996)
 * I see your point, but can you name one classical Greek or Elizabethean shoemaker?
 * His reply to a shoe manufacturer who had asked why theaters should be subsidized when his was not.
 * The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller, 2000, Author's Foreword to the Second Edition
 * I'm a fatalist. … I consider I am rejected in principle. My work is and, through my work, I am. If it's accepted, it's miraculous or the result of a misunderstanding.
 * As quoted in "Arthur Miller, Moral Voice of American Stage, Dies at 89" by Marilyn Berger in The New York Times (February 11, 2005)
 * I don't know a critic who penetrates the center of anything.
 * As quoted in "Arthur Miller, Moral Voice of American Stage, Dies at 89" by Marilyn Berger in The New York Times (February 11, 2005)
 * Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
 * As quoted in Finding Your Bipolar Muse : How to Master Depressive Droughts and Manic Depression (2006) by Lana R. Castle, p. 258

Death of a Salesman (1949)

 * They don't need me in New York. I'm the New England man. I'm vital in New England.
 * Willy Loman
 * I simply asked him if he was making any money. Is that a criticism?
 * Willy
 * Why must everybody like you?
 * Charley
 * I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life.
 * Biff
 * I'm very well liked in Hartford. You know, the trouble is, Linda, people don't seem to take to me.
 * Willy
 * Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.
 * Ben
 * I don't say he's a great man. Willy Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall into his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must be finally paid to such a person.
 * Linda
 * A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.
 * Linda
 * Personality always wins the day.
 * Willy
 * Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
 * Willy
 * Sit down, Willy.
 * Charley
 * The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.
 * Charley
 * You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away — a man is not a piece of fruit.
 * Willy
 * After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.
 * Willy
 * Work a lifetime to pay off a house — You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.
 * Willy
 * Ben, that funeral will be massive! They'll come from Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire! All the old-timers with the strange license plates — that boy will be thunderstruck, Ben, because he never realized — I am known! Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey — I am known, Ben, and he'll see it with his eyes once and for all.
 * Willy
 * Spite, spite, is the word of your undoing!
 * Willy
 * You cut your life down for spite!
 * Willy
 * Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am!
 * Biff
 * Isn't that — isn't that remarkable? Biff — he likes me!
 * Willy
 * Nobody dast blame this man. Willy was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back — that's an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you're finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.
 * Charley
 * And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. 'Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?
 * Willy
 * Wonderful coffee. Meal in itself
 * Willy
 * Nothing's Planted, I don't have a thing in the ground.
 * Willy
 * We're free and clear, Willy. We're free, we're free, we're free...
 * Linda

Tragedy and the Common Man (1949)

 * The New York Times (27 February 1949)

 * In this age few tragedies are written. It has often been held that the lack is due to a paucity of heroes among us, or else that modern man has had the blood drawn out of his organs of belief by the skepticism of science, and the heroic attack on life cannot feed on an attitude of reserve and circumspection. For one reason or another, we are often held to be below tragedy — or tragedy above us.
 * I think the tragic feeling is evoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing — his sense of personal dignity. From Orestes to Hamlet, Medea to Macbeth, the underlying struggle is that of the individual attempting to gain his "rightful" position in his society. Sometimes he is one who has been displaced from it, sometimes one who seeks to attain it for the first time, but the fateful wound from which the inevitable events spiral is the wound of indignity and its dominant force is indignation. Tragedy, then, is the consequence of a man's total compulsion to evaluate himself justly.
 * Only the passive, only those who accept their lot without active retaliation, are "flawless." Most of us are in that category. But there are among us today, as there always have been, those who act against the scheme of things that degrades them, and in the process of action everything we have accepted out of fear of insensitivity or ignorance is shaken before us and examined, and from this total onslaught by an individual against the seemingly stable cosmos surrounding us — from this total examination of the "unchangeable" environment — comes the terror and the fear that is classically associated with tragedy. More important, from this total questioning of what has previously been unquestioned, we learn.

 * The tragic right is a condition of life, a condition in which the human personality is able to flower and realize itself. The wrong is the condition which suppresses man, perverts the flowing out of his love and creative instinct. Tragedy enlightens — and it must, in that it points the heroic finger at the enemy of man's freedom. The thrust for freedom is the quality in tragedy which exalts. The revolutionary questioning of the stable environment is what terrifies.
 * Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect. No tragedy can therefore come about when its author fears to question absolutely everything, when he regards any institution, habit or custom as being either everlasting, immutable or inevitable. In the tragic view the need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star, and whatever it is that hedges his nature and lowers it is ripe for attack and examination.
 * There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers and readers alike. It is the idea that tragedy is of necessity allied to pessimism. Even the dictionary says nothing more about the word than that it means a story with a sad or unhappy ending. This impression is so firmly fixed that I almost hesitate to claim that in truth tragedy implies more optimism in its author than does comedy, and that its final result ought to be the reinforcement of the onlooker's brightest opinions of the human animal. For, if it is true to say that in essence the tragic hero is intent upon claiming his whole due as a personality, and if this struggle must be total and without reservation, then it automatically demonstrates the indestructible will of man to achieve his humanity.
 * The possibility of victory must be there in tragedy. Where pathos rules, where pathos is finally derived, a character has fought a battle he could not possibly have won. The pathetic is achieved when the protagonist is, by virtue of his witlessness, his insensitivity, or the very air he gives off, incapable of grappling with a much superior force. Pathos truly is the mode for the pessimist. But tragedy requires a nicer balance between what is possible and what is impossible. And it is curious, although edifying, that the plays we revere, century after century, are the tragedies. In them, and in them alone, lies the belief — optimistic, if you will, in the perfectibility of man. It is time, I think, that we who are without kings, took up this bright thread of our history and followed it to the only place it can possibly lead in our time — the heart and spirit of the average man.

The Crucible (1953)

 *  Act I

 * Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!
 * Abigail Williams
 * Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time. But I'll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again.
 * John Proctor
 * A child's spirit is like a child, you cannot catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
 * Rebecca Nurse
 * We cannot look to superstition in this. The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone.
 * Reverend John Hale
 * There are wheels within wheels in this village, and fires within fires!
 * Mrs. Ann Putnam
 * I have trouble enough without I come five mile to hear him preach only hellfire and bloody damnation. Take it to heart, Mr. Parris. There are many others who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more.
 * John Proctor
 * Hale: Here is all the invisible world, caught, defined, and calculated. In these books the Devil stands stripped of all his brute disguises. Here are all your familiar spirits — your incubi and succubi; your witches that go by land, by air, and by sea; your wizards of the night and of the day. Have no fear now — we shall find him out if he has come among us, and I mean to crush him utterly if he has shown his face! Rebecca: Will it hurt the child, sir? Hale: I cannot tell. If she is truly in the Devil's grip we may have to rip and tear to get her free.

 *  Act II

 * Proctor: You will not judge me more, Elizabeth. I have good reason to think before I charge fraud on Abigail, and I will think on it. Let you look to your own improvement before you go to judge your husband any more. I have forgot Abigail, and — Elizabeth: And I. Proctor: Spare me! You forget nothin' and forgive nothin.' Learn charity, woman. I have gone tiptoe in this house all seven months since she is gone. I have not moved from there to here without I think to please you, and still an everlasting funeral marches round your heart. I cannot speak but I am doubted, every moment judged for lies, as though I come into a court when I come into this house! Elizabeth: I do not judge you. The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you. I never thought you but a good man, John — only somewhat bewildered. Proctor: Oh, Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer!
 * I'll plead no more! I see now your spirit twists around the single error of my life, and I will never tear it free!
 * John Proctor
 * I like it not that Mr. Parris should lay his hand upon my baby. I see no light of God in that man. I'll not conceal it.
 * John Proctor
 * Theology, sir, is a fortress; no crack in a fortress may be accounted small.
 * John Hale
 * Though our own hearts break, we cannot flinch; these are new times, sir. There is a misty plot afoot so subtle we should be criminal to cling to old respect and ancient friendships. I have seen too many frightful proofs in court — the Devil is alive in Salem, and we dare not quail to follow wherever the accusing finger points!
 * John Hale
 * 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! This warrant's vengeance! I'll not give my wife to vengeance!
 * John Proctor
 * Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow.
 * John Proctor

 *  Act III

 * We burn a hot fire here; it melts down all concealment.
 * Deputy Governor Danforth
 * A person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between. This is a sharp time, now, a precise time — we live no longer in the dusky afternoon when evil mixed itself with good and befuddled the world.
 * Deputy Governor Danforth
 * Hale: There is a prodigious fear of this court in the country — Danforth: Then there is a prodigious guilt in the country. Are you afraid to be questioned here? Hale: I may only fear the Lord, sir, but there is fear in the country nevertheless. Danforth: Reproach me not with the fear in the country; there is fear in the country because there is a moving plot to topple Christ in the country! Hale: But it does not follow that everyone accused is part of it. Danforth: No uncorrupted man may fear this court, Mr. Hale!
 * In an ordinary crime, how does one defend the accused? One calls up witnesses to prove his innocence. But witchcraft is ipso facto, on its face and by its nature, an invisible crime, is it not? Therefore, who may possibly be witness to it? The witch and the victim. None other. Now we cannot hope the witch will accuse herself; granted? Therefore, we must rely upon her victims — and they do testify, the children certainly do testify. As for the witches, none will deny that we are most eager for all their confessions. Therefore, what is left for a lawyer to bring out? I think I have made my point. Have I not?
 * Deputy Governor Danforth
 * A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth! For them that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your black hearts that this be fraud — God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!
 * John Proctor
 * '''You're pulling heaven down, and raising up a whore!
 * John Proctor

 *  Act IV

 * It is mistaken law that leads you to sacrifice. Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it. I beg you, woman, prevail upon your husband to confess. Let him give his lie. Quail not before God's judgment in this, for it may well be God damns a liar less than he that throws his life away for pride.
 * John Hale
 * John, I counted myself so plain, so poorly made, no honest love could come to me! Suspicion kissed you when I did; I never knew how I should say my love. It were a cold house I kept!
 * Elizabeth Proctor
 * Danforth: Do you mean to deny this confession when you are free? Proctor: I mean to deny nothing! Danforth: Then explain to me, Mr. Proctor, why you will not let — Proctor: [With the cry of his whole soul] Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!
 * I do think I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor. Not enough to weave a banner with, but white enough to keep it from such dogs. Give them no tear! Tears pleasure them! Show honor now, show a stony heart and sink them with it!
 * John Proctor
 * Who weeps for these, weeps for corruption!
 * Deputy Governor Danforth
 * He have his goodness now, God forbid I take it from him!
 * Elizabeth Proctor

After the Fall (1964)

 * Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
 * Foreword
 * I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.
 * Quentin in After the Fall (1964) Act II
 * I saw clearly only when I saw with love. Or can one ever remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume. And that's the truth of roses, isn't it? — The perfume?
 * Quentin in After the Fall (1964) Act II
 * I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self. One day the house smells of fresh bread, the next of smoke and blood. One day you faint because the gardener cuts his finger off, within a week you're climbing over corpses of children bombed in a subway. What hope can there be if that is so? I tried to die near the end of the war. The same dream returned each night until I dared not to go to sleep and grew quite ill. I dreamed I had a child, and even in the dream I saw it was my life, and it was an idiot, and I ran away. But it always crept onto my lap again, clutched at my clothes. Until I thought, if I could kiss it, whatever in it was my own, perhaps I could sleep. And I bent to its broken face, and it was horrible … but I kissed it. I think one must finally take one's life in one's arms.

The Ride Down Mount Morgan (1991)

 * I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.
 * Lyman speaking of his wife to his lawyer, Act 1
 * Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
 * Act 1
 * 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 rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.
 * Lyman, Act 2

Quotes about Miller

 * I remember reading “Death of a Salesman” in high school and hating it, but when I read it in college I loved it. I was blown away by what Arthur Miller had created.
 * Tomi Adeyemi Interview (2019)
 * His work teaches us a lot about how to fight evil.
 * Edward Albee, as quoted in "Broadway lights go out for Miller" BBC News (11 February 2005)
 * Arthur was the last of the three great theatrical voices of the American century — O'Neill, Williams, Miller. … Arthur's special achievement was to make political and social plays which belonged on Broadway and yet were also powered to reach out into America and way beyond.
 * David Hare, as quoted in "Legacy of an 'American titan'" BBC News (11 February 2005)
 * The greatest playwright of the 20th century.
 * Vaclav Havel, as quoted in "Broadway lights go out for Miller" BBC News (11 February 2005)
 * I have come across several articles by the American playwright Arthur Miller in which he sets out to denounce Stalin's purges and Brezhnev's invasion of Czechoslovakia but ends up denouncing America. Living in America, Arthur Miller wrote all the plays he wanted to write, had them produced, and was amply rewarded by money and fame. He also managed to have everything his heart desired, including the most fabulous blonde of his day. Why then this loathing for America? The only explanation I can think of is that Miller is too self-righteous and self-important to admit the gross stupidity of his Stalinist commitment. He must go on trying to convince the world that there is not much to choose between Russia and America.
 * Eric Hoffer, Before the Sabbath, Harper & Row 1979, p. 50
 * Arthur Miller has always been the owner of a sound, but essentially minor, talent and no amount of purgation can improve the quality of whatever there may be to follow. As it is, however, those qualities which he has, substantial as they are, always seem to overreach themselves, straining after a magnitude for which they are simply not fitted. And in the few years that he has been away, on Sinai it would seem, Miller has developed an absurd literary hubris, puffing himself up like an idiotic bull-frog in Aesop.
 * The comparison with Reginald Rose is more than a passing snub, for it actually makes reference to an enduring affinity between Miller and the sturdy, footling craftsmen of "liberal" telly. Stripped of its tricks, and with the soliloquies cut, and so on, After the Fall shrinks to its proper proportion, as a sequence of sketches for The Defenders and The Eleventh Hour.
 * Jonathan Miller "Broken Blossoms", The New York Review of Books (March 5, 1964)
 * The premiere production of After the Fall at Repertory Theater of The Lincoln Center was directed by Elia Kazan.
 * In Arthur Miller's writing, which counts on an effect of flatness that is to be found in most of our well-made fiction in this period, the question is used for a kind of sonority, a reverberation of consciousness that actually demands more consciousness and more language. After the inarticulateness of most of his people, we feel relief when a man breaks through and cries to another man: Don't you live in the world? What the hell are you?...What must I do to you?
 * Muriel Rukeyser The Life of Poetry (1949)
 * Writing meant, for him, an effort to locate in the human species a counterforce to the randomness of victimisation.
 * Salman Rushdie, as quoted in "Broadway lights go out for Miller" BBC News (11 February 2005)

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Christine Todd Whitman

Christine Todd "Christie" Whitman (born September 26, 1946) is an American Republican politician, and author who served as the 50th governor of New Jersey, from 1994 to 2001, and as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in the administration of President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2003. She is the first and only woman to be governor of New Jersey, to date.

Quotes

 * When you’re dealing with people who think that Sponge Bob Square Pants is more important than social security, you have a problem.
 * In appearance on The Daily Show, regarding her book It's My Party Too (January 2005)

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