David Hare

“We appealed to the conscience of the world. The world has no conscience. We have no one but ourselves."The fight. The struggle. The historic destiny. The return of the people. The cause: life therefore having a meaning and shape that eludes the rest of us in the endless wash of 'What the hell are we doing here?' In a single day, says an Israeli friend, he experiences events and emotions that would keep a Swede going for a year.”

“In oratory the will must predominate.”

“'Via Dolorosa' is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and I'll never act again.”

“Smiles are the language of love.”

“Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.”

“The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.”

“Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.”

“To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.”

“Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.”

“The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.”

“Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.”

“Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.”

“When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths.”

“Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.”

“Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.”

“Children always turn to the light.”

“The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.”

“In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.”

“Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.”

“The future of American film lies on television.”