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 dehumanisation of feelings, then the ultimate develop

Quote by Arthur Miller

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Without alienation, there can be no politics.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab...

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab...

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after...

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after...

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I...

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I...

A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!

A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say...

I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say...

I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an...

I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an...

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was...

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was...

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home...

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home...

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home...

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home...

The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders...

The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders...

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you...

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you...

I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.

I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a...

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a...

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater...

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater...

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum?...

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum?...