Quotes by Playwrights - Page 145

For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.
Václav Havel
Well, what do they all amount to, these kings and captains and bishops and lawyers and such like? They just leave you in the ditch to bleed to death; and the next thing is, you meet them down there, for all the airs they give themselves.
George Bernard Shaw
He began to realize what the criminal class knows so well, the impossibility of explaining anything to a man with power.
Graham Greene
The courtroom is one instance of the fact that while our society may be liberal and democratic in some large and vague sense, its moving parts, its smaller chambers--its classrooms, its workplaces, its corporate boardrooms, its jails, its military barracks--are flagrantly undemocratic, dominated by one commanding person or a tiny elite of power.
Howard Zinn
A stone thrown up into the air is bound to fall down, and absolute power is like a huge stone thrown up into the air.
Mehmet Murat ildan
The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.
Ben Elton
The viscountess had raised the forefinger of her right hand and made a pretty gesture toward a stool at her feet. There was such intense tyrannical passion in the gesture that the marquis relinquished the doorknob and came back.
Honoré de Balzac
But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation.
Howard Zinn
One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house.
Jean Genet
The pow'r I have on you is to spare you / The malice towards you, to forgive you. Posthumus
William Shakespeare
It is always the enemy who started it, even if he was not the first to speak out, he was certainly planning it; and if he was not actually planning it, he was thinking of it; and, if he was not thinking of it, he would have thought of it.
Elias Canetti
It is excellent / To have a giant's strenght / But it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant(Isabella)
William Shakespeare
For to be wise and love exceeds man's might.
William Shakespeare
You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.
Mikhail Bulgakov
When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Euripides
...But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its cage, and if it is not tamed, it will tun wild and cause you grief.
Robert Greene
Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
Oscar Wilde
Ambition: it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
J.M. Barrie
Just like sweeping the streets, sweep the unnecessary things from your mind too; keep your mind clean!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Perhaps it was only that I did not feel any crazier than I had ever felt. I did not notice any missing gray tissue, I did not seem to be thinking any slower or more strangely, and so far I’d had no conversations with invisible buddies that I was aware of. Except in my sleep, of course-and did that really count? Weren’t we all crazy in our sleep? What was sleep, after all, but the process by which we dumped our insanity into a dark subconscious pit and came out on the other side ready to eat cereal instead of the neighbor’s children?
Jeff Lindsay
Have you got a local mind? Broaden it! Have you got an international mind? Broaden it! Have you got a universal mind? It is not enough, because there are other universes. Broaden it! Broaden your mind till you get a multi-universal mind! And yet, this is not enough too! Broaden it! Leave your village; leave your city; leave your country; leave the earth; leave the universe; leave all the universes! Don’t let your mind to cast anchor in any port! Narrow mind is the greatest enemy of the truth! The best mind is the one which has no frontiers!
Mehmet Murat ildan
An unfree mind is just like a windmill inside the bell jar!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
Arnold Bennett
Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the wings of his genius, have you hovered over the illimitable abyss of the past as if a magician's hand were holding you aloft? As one penetrates from seam to seam, from stratum to stratum and discovers, under the quarries of Montmartre or in the schists of the Urals, those animals whose fossilized remains belong to antediluvian civilizations, the mind is startled to catch a vista of the milliards of years and the millions of peoples which the feeble memory of man and an indestructible divine tradition have forgotten and whose ashes heaped on the surface of our globe, form the two feet of earth which furnish us with bread and flowers. Is not Cuvier the greatest poet of our century? Certainly Lord Byron has expressed in words some aspects of spiritual turmoil; but our immortal natural historian has reconstructed worlds from bleached bones.
Honoré de Balzac
Seek not a lighthouse greater than the human mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When mind is so easy, body becomes so tranquil and so fearless.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Open the curtains of your mind! If there is light outside, it will come in; if there is light inside, it will go out! Keep the curtains open!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A good mind is the mind which leaves no one on the ground when rising!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What a magnificient look a clear sky has! And what a magnificient look a clear mind has!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Understand: your mind is weaker than your emotions. But you become aware of this weakness only in moments of adversity,precisely the time whenyou need strength. What best equips you to cope with tthe heat of battle is neither more knowledge nor more intellect. What makes your mind stronger, and more able to control your emotions, is internal discipline and toughness.No one can teach you this skill; you cannot learn it by reading about it. Like any discipline, it can come only through practice, experience, even a little suffering. The first step in building up presence of mind is to see the need for it, to want it badly enough to be willing to work for it.
Robert Greene
What you feed in yourself that grows.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To end the greatest work designed,A thousand hands need but one mind.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If your mind is misty, your life will be misty; if your mind is sunny, your life will be sunny! Your life will be the reflection of your mind, of your thoughts! If there is a candle in your mind, your life will not know what utter darkness is!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes your mind can imprison your body and can put your body under some constraints. There is only one way for your body to be free: To free your mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You must learn the art of disappearance to protect yourself from the stupid! This art will save your time and your energy and it will keep your mind’s purity. And what is this art? It is to isolate yourself for a particular period of time from the society!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Our true appearance is our mind’s appearance; whatever our mind’s visage is, that is our real visage! Thus, whenever you meet a person, concentrate on his mind to see his real look, try to understand his mind because his mind is his real face!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You need to lose yourself and disappear in the depths of the repetitions? Find a coast and watch the repetitive waves! Soon your mind vanishes away and when your mind disappears you disappear!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The greatest storms on our Earth break not in nature but in our minds!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you take a photo, you often take your own reality into your camera - the reality that you shaped in your mind - and not the real reality over there, whatever it is!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Do not try to catch the happiness because happiness is not a thing you can catch, it is a thing you can create with your own mind only!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A limited mind will have a limited world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For a cheerful mind, sun never sets; for a cheerless mind, sun never rises!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To empty your mind, walk in the empty streets! Full mind is a tired mind; empty mind is a lively mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Are you there? If your mind is not there, you are not there! You are wherever your mind is wandering!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The reality of the mind can be one hundred percent different than the reality of the reality!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Your body is always wherever it is; but your mind, often somewhere else! Thus, when a person talks to you, he often talks to your body, not to your mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
First reach your target in your mind, then reaching your target in reality will just be a formality!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Earthquake means destruction; dictator means destruction! In the case of earthquake, you need a strong building; in the case of dictator, you need an educated rational mind, because an irrational ignorant mind always serves the dictator!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A mind that tastes the grief obtains a good chance to travel to the Land of Wisdom!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Mind makes you happy, mind makes you unhappy. When you are unhappy, the solution is there, in your mind, not in somewhere else!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Art needs no victory because it is already the victory of the meticulous mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If the weather is summer in your mind, even the coldest winter will be hot for you! If the weather is winter in your mind, even the hottest summer will be cold for you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To see the universe clearly, you need not only a clear sky but also a clear mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you want to go to a far and difficult place, firstly send your mind to that far place, then your mind will meet with your body over there!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Old man with a young mind is much younger than the young man with an old mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A peaceful nature is the best doctor for an unpeaceful mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To be able to see a magic, you need to have a mind that can detect that magic!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Your mind is your guide! With a clever mind, you will have a life full of light! Improve your mind, improve your real savior!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Wherever wind visits, there it freshens the air; wherever wisdom visits, there it freshens the mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Whatever you have in your mind, it always carries the potential to come into existence in the world of reality!
Mehmet Murat ildan