A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.

Trash has given us an appetite for art.

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.

In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.

Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.'

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.

Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction.

You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.

We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny.

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson.

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.

Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.

And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books.

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad.

The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

We can today open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a single act stained with injustice to the North, or with partiality to their own section.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

What did our nation ever do to provoke these madly vicious enemies? What is seen as injustice in one place is seen as just requital in the other.

Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.

Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.