The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability in a man as they do in a telephone or a machine gun, and they train their soldiers to act as a unit, not as individuals.
Marlon BrandoDo you remember when Marilyn Monroe died? Everybody stopped work, and you could see all that day the same expressions on their faces, the same thought: โHow can a girl with success, fame, youth, money, beauty . . . how could she kill herself?โ Nobody could understand it because those are the things that everybody wants, and they canโt believe that life wasnโt important to Marilyn Monroe, or that her life was elsewhere
Marlon BrandoWe make up any excuse to preserve myths about people we love, but the reverse is also true; if we dislike an individual we adamantly resist changing our opinion, even when somebody offers proof of his decency, because it's vital to have myths about both the gods and devils in our lives.
Marlon Brando