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All My Sons QUOTES

All My Sons QUOTES

1 " Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer. "

― Arthur Miller , All My Sons

2 " Do I raise the dead when I put him behind bars? Then what'll I do it for? We used to shoot a man who acted like a dog, but honor was real there, you were protecting something. But here? This is the land of the great big dogs, you don't love a man here, you eat him! "

― Arthur Miller , All My Sons

3 " Mother: What more can we be?

Chris: You can be better! Once and for all you can know there's a universe of people outside and you're responsible to it, and unless you know that you threw away your son because that's how he died. "

― Arthur Miller , All My Sons

4 " I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father. "

― Arthur Miller , All My Sons

5 " ...he'll come back. We all come back, Kate. These private little revolutions always die. The compromise is always made. In a peculiar way. Frank is right-- every man does have a star. The star of one's honesty. And you spend your life groping for it, but once it's out it never lights again. I don't think he went very far. He probably just wanted to be alone to watch his star go out. "

― Arthur Miller , All My Sons

6 " Dad...you did it? (Shocked but keeping voice down) You did it to the others? You sent out a hundred and twenty cracked engine-heads and let those boys die! How could you do that? How? (Voice rises with anger) Dad...Dad, you killed twenty-one men! You killed them, you murdered them. (Becomes more furious) Explain it to me. Explain to me how you do it? What did you do? (Pause) Explain it to me goddammit or I will tear you to pieces! I want to know what you did, now what did you do? You had a hundred and twenty cracked engine-heads, now what did you do? Why'd you ship them out in the first place? If you knew they were cracked, then why didn't you tell them? "

― Arthur Miller , All My Sons

7 " You don't realize how people can hate, they can hate so much they'll tear the world to pieces. "

― Arthur Miller , All My Sons

8 " There are certain men in the world who rather see everybody hung before they'll take blame. "

― Arthur Miller , All My Sons

9 " (Looking at the letter in his hand) Then what is this if it isn’t telling me? Sure, [Larry] was my son. But I think to him [the pilots killed] were all my sons. And I guess they were, I guess they were "

― Arthur Miller , All My Sons

10 " You want to live? You better figure out your life. "

― Arthur Miller , All My Sons

11 " Chris: For me! Where do you live, where have you come from? For me!-- I was dying every day and you were killing my boys and you did it for me? What the hell do you think I was thinking of, the Goddamn business? Is that as far as your mind can see, the business? What is that , the world-- the business? What the hell do you mean, you did it for me? Don't you have a country? Don't you live in the world? What the hell are you? You're not even an animal, no animal kills his own, what are you? "

― Arthur Miller , All My Sons

12 " I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer. My whole bloody life, time after time after time. "

― Arthur Miller , All My Sons

13 " There are certain people, the sicker they get the longer they live. "

― Arthur Miller , All My Sons

14 " Keller: You've got a business here, what the hell is this?

Chris: The business! The business doesn't inspire me.

Keller: Must you be inspired?

Chris: Yes. I like it an hour a day. If I have to grub for money all day long at least at evening I want it beautiful. I want a family, I want some kids, I want to build something I can give myself to. Annie is in the middle of that. "

― Arthur Miller , All My Sons

15 " We used to shoot a man who acted like a dog, but honor was real there, you were protecting something. But here? This is the land of the great big dogs, you don't love a man here, you eat him! That's the principle ; the only one we live by. "

― Arthur Miller , All My Sons

16 " Forget now. Live. "

― Arthur Miller , All My Sons

17 " Research pays twenty-five dollars a week minus laundering the hair shirt. You've got to give up your life to go into it. "

― Arthur Miller , All My Sons

18 " I like to keep abreast of my ignorance "

― Arthur Miller , All My Sons

19 " Oh, no, he'll come back. We all come back, Kate. These private little revolutions always die... Frank is right- every man does have a star. The star of one's honesty. And you spend your life groping for it, but once it's out it never lights again. "

― Arthur Miller , All My Sons