An animal can learn to fight, but to sing beautiful things and make people believe them.

If I were dead and buried And I heard your voice, Beneath the sod My heart of dust Would still rejoice.

The chief internal enemies of any state are not spies nor saboteurs nor the paid agents of foreign governments. They are, on the contrary, those myriads of public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

You show me a politician with his heels ten feet in the air, and by Judas priest, Ill show you an honest politician.

This blacklisting is going to collapse because it is rotten, immoral and illegal. I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio. I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do

The blacklist was a time of evil...no one on either side who survived it came through untouched by evil...[Looking] back on this time...it will do no good to search for villains or heroes or saints or devils because there were none; there were only victims.

I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.