The growing sensitivity of people to any sort of open and frank discussion of important issues is no service to civilisation, let alone law and order. I wrote a play about a man who happened to be a salesman, and several organisations of sales people flew to arms. Now it is the lawyers. If I am to back away from these objections you must surely see that I shall be forced to write about people with no occupation whatever.

— Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller Quotes

Ah, it’s a dog’s life. I only wish during the war they’d a took me in the army. I coulda been dead by now.

— Arthur Miller

Well, dear, life is a casting off. It’s always that way.

— Arthur Miller

MARCHAND, leaning forward to see Monceau: You would think, though, that with the manpower shortage they’d economize on personnel. In the car that stopped me there was a driver, two French detectives, and a German official of some kind. They could easily have put a notice in the paper – everyone would have come here to present his documents. This way it’s a whole morning wasted. Aside from the embarrassment. LEBEAU: I’m not embarrassed, I’m scared to death. To Bayard: You embarrassed?

— Arthur Miller

BIFF: I am not a leader of men, Willy, and neither are you. You were never anything but a hard-working drummer who landed in the ash can like all the rest of them! I’m one dollar an hour, Willy! I tried seven states and couldn’t raise it. A buck an hour! Do you gather my meaning? I’m not bringing home any prizes any more, and you’re going to stop waiting for me to bring them home!

— Arthur Miller

You make mountains out of molehills.

— Arthur Miller

I could tell you things about Louis that wouldn’t make you wave at him no more.

— Arthur Miller

Yes, the day the world ended and nobody was innocent again. God, how swiftly it all fell down!

— Arthur Miller

FRANK, peeved: The trouble with you is, you don’t believe in anything. JIM: And your trouble is that you believe in anything. You didn’t see my kid this morning, did you?

— Arthur Miller

CAPTAIN: Try to avoid taking anybody out of a crowd. Just cruise around the way we did before, and take them one at a time. There are all kinds of rumors. We don’t want to alarm people.

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Who worked for nothin’ in that war? When they work for nothin’, I’ll work for nothin’. Did they ship a gun or a truck outa Detroit before they got their price? Is that clean? It’s dollars and cents, nickels and dimes; war and peace, it’s nickels and dimes, what’s clean? Half the Goddam country is gotta go if I go! That’s why you can’t tell me.

— Arthur Miller

MOTHER: What more can we be! CHRIS: You can be better! Once and for all you can know there’s a universe of people outside and you’re responsible to it, and unless you know that you threw away your son because that’s why he died.

— Arthur Miller

We used to shoot a man who acted like a dog, but honor was real there, you were protecting something. But here? This is the land of the great big dogs, you don’t love a man here, you eat him! That’s the principle ; the only one we live by.

— Arthur Miller

The human reality of what happens to millions is only for God to grasp; but what happens to individuals is another matter and within the range of mortal understanding.

— Arthur Miller

MONCEAU: In my opinion you’re hysterical. After all, they were picking up Jews in Germany for years before the war, they’ve been doing it in Paris since they came in – are you telling me all those people are dead? Is that really conceivable to you? War is war, but you still have to keep a certain sense of proportion. I mean Germans are still people.

— Arthur Miller

MOTHER: You think just because you like everybody, they like you!

— Arthur Miller

This is not god Marco you hear me, only god makes justice.

— Arthur Miller

Certain things have to be, the sun has to rise.

— Arthur Miller

Every man does have a star. the star of one’s honesty. and you spend your life groping for it, but once its out it never lights again.

— Arthur Miller

Is that as far as your mind can see, the business? What is that, the world – the business? What the hell do you mean, you did it for me? Don’t you have a country? Don’t you live in the world? What the hell are you? You’re not even an animal, no animal kills his own, what are you? What must I do to you? I ought to tear the tongue out of your mouth, what must I do?

— Arthur Miller

To admit what you see endangers principles.

— Arthur Miller
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