The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.

Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.

What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is 'himself'.

Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved around the sun and let Galileo be driven to his knees like a dog? It takes fifty years for the majority to be right. The majority is never right until it does right.

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.

Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.