So far nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process.

Atticus, you must be wrong.” “How’s that?” “Well, most folks seem to think they’re right and you’re wrong. . .” “They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions,”...

Miss Gates is a nice lady, ain’t she?”Why sure,” said Jem. “I liked her when I was in her room.”She hates Hitler a lot . . .”What’s wrong with that?”Well, she went on today about...

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

Whatever she says to you, it’s your jobnot to let her make you mad.

I’ve heard that lawyers’ children, on seeing their parents in court in the heat of argument, get the wrong idea: they think opposing counsel to be the personal enemies of their parents, they suffer agonies,...

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

If we followed our feelings all the time, we’d be like cats chasin’ their tails.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

We saw Uncle Jack every Christmas, and every Christmas he yelled across the street for Miss Maudie to come marry him. Miss Mauide would yell back, “Call a little louder, Jack Finch, and they’ll hear...

Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.

There are just some kind of men who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.

The gum looked fresh. I sniffed it and it smelled all right. I licked it and waited for a while. When I did not die, I crammed it into my mouth: Wrigley’s Double Mint.

There was nowhere to go, but I turned to go and met Atticus’s vest front. I buried my head in it and listened to the small internal noises that went on behind the light blue...

As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don’t think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye...

Miss Mayella” in her life; probably not, as she took offense to routine courtesy. What on earth was her life like? I soon found out.

Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.

There’s just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to ’em. Even then, they ain’t worth the bullet it takes to shoot ’em.

I wanted you to see something about her—I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you...

Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?

La seule chose qui ne doive pas céder à la loi de la majorité est la conscience de l’individu

We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.

The witnesses for the state, with the exception of the sheriff of Maycomb County, have presented themselves to you gentlemen, to this court, in the cynical confidence that their testimony would not be doubted, confident...

With him, life was routine, without him, life was unbearable.

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.

In other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama

You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that’s the way I want to live.

We can’t always have our druthers.

She was the bravest person I ever knew.

I wonder how much of the day I spend just callin’ after you.

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the...

She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.

That’s just their way,” about the Ewells. Maycomb gave them Christmas baskets, welfare money, and the back of its hand. Tom Robinson was probably the only person who was ever decent to her. But she...

With him was routine, but without him it was unbearable.

Tidak Jem, kukira hanya ada satu jenis manusia. Manusia.(Jem) Pikirku juga begitu, saat aku seusiamu. Kalau hanya ada satu jenis manusia, mengapa mereka tidak bisa rukun? Kalau mereka semua sama, mengapa mereka merepotkan diri untuk...

Don’t matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house’s yo’ comp’ny, and don’t you let me catch you remarkin’ on their ways like you was so high and and mighty! Yo’ folks might...

Atticus, he was real nice.””Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.

Peki, niçin bize en gizli sırrını açmıştı? Nedenini sordum. -Çünkü siz çocuksunuz. Anlarsınız.

Things are always better in the morning.

I was more at home in my father’s world. People like Mr. Heck Tate did not trap you with innocent questions to make fun of you; even Jem was not highly critical unless you said...

Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.

I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could...

I certainly am. I do my best to love everybody… I’m hard put, sometimes—baby, it’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that...

Don’t you oh well me,sir,” Miss Maudie replied, recognizing Jem’s fatalistic noises, “you are not old enough to appreciate what I said.

Then Mr. Underwood’s meaning became clear: Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men’s hearts Atticus had no case.

We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe. Some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they’re born with it, some men...

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

A boy trudged down the sidewalk dragging a fishing pole behind him. A man stood waiting with his hands on his hips. Summertime, and his children played in the front yard with their friend, enacting...

Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen.

It’s not time to worry yet