But this banality of violence can never excuse America, because America makes no claim to the banal.
“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.”
― Mrs. Warren's Profession
― Mrs. Warren's Profession
“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.”
― Mrs. Warren's Profession
― Mrs. Warren's Profession
“I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.”
― Pygmalion / My Fair Lady
― Pygmalion / My Fair Lady
“There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind...”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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