He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound… to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be...

Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.

The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy.

Night hath a thousand eyes.

You get to Hollywood and you are in the land of big money where they don’t like to see only one screenwriter’s name. It’s much better if you’ve got four or five.

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

I have not come up with anything original. It needs a better brain than mine! I have done what I can do in taking Dawkins’ idea and extending it.

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America’s youth.

The Nationals tried hard to recover the lost ground. The final result, however, was the success of the Forest Citys by a score of 29 to 23 in a nine innings game, twice interrupted by...

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

They held it their duty to live but for their country.

For a moment, nothing happened.Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.

I prefer doing original scripts because I totally control the story – it’s all mine. Films don’t work like that but television does.

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.

The word pessimism was a polemical word – it described an attitude of general despair, which was supposed to color opinions and assessments of facts.

A clear conscience is a sure card.

You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it’s going to be about something and it does...

What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with genes. That’s not how it works. It works by realizing the concept of...

Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.

He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.

All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.

Man as a pure animal does not exist.

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.

I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.

But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

The will is what matters – as long as you have that, you are safe.

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.

A merry companion is as good as a wagon.

Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

People get depressed and get attracted to different types of memes. You can trace some of this to how the biological hierarchy is set up.

There is no logical reason why humanity could not be organized as a society, or as a purely economic enterprise, or as a vast book club.

Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.

Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.

All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer’s attention.