Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.
FRIEDRICH EBERT I try to give the music more of a campfire feel as opposed to a library atmosphere. I like when you ...
ALEX EBERT A few actresses have all but set up shop as women of a certain age who attract younger lovers. I thi...
ROGER EBERT Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when dire...
ROGER EBERT I remember when a Coke came in a six-ounce bottle, and delicious it was. Now it comes in sizes so bi...
ROGER EBERT The Muse visits during the act of creation, not before. Don't wait for her. Start alone.
ROGER EBERT Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized ni...
ROGER EBERT People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being t...
ROGER EBERT Let me tell you a story. The day after Columbine, I was interviewed for the Tom Brokaw news program....
ROGER EBERT Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?
ROGER EBERT A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desire...
ROGER EBERT I pay attention when the Academy Awards come around. I haven't watched them in a while, but I us...
ALEX EBERT It took me a long time to be alright with smiling onstage.
ALEX EBERT Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.
ROGER EBERT Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirat...
ROGER EBERT My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'
ROGER EBERT By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of...
ROGER EBERT Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.
ROGER EBERT Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted.
ROGER EBERT It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people.
ROGER EBERT I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the pa...
ROGER EBERT And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and dis...
ROGER EBERT We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.
ROGER EBERT It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.
ROGER EBERT I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the...
ROGER EBERT I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.
ROGER EBERT Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually abo...
ROGER EBERT No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.
ROGER EBERT Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
ROGER EBERT Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusi...
ROGER EBERT Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natu...
ROGER EBERT I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand t...
ROGER EBERT Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.
ROGER EBERT One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open t...
ROGER EBERT To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must t...
ROGER EBERT Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Ra...
ROGER EBERT There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase...
ROGER EBERT Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
ROGER EBERT The idea that a book can advise a woman how to capture a man is touchingly naive. Books advising men...
ROGER EBERT ' The Lucky One' is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' p...
ROGER EBERT You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take...
ROGER EBERT From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives...
ROGER EBERT No movie has ever been able to provide a catharsis for the Holocaust, and I suspect none will ever b...
ROGER EBERT Every great film should seem new every time you see it."
Roger Ebert
ROGER EBERT Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring unkno...
ROGER EBERT We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be As...
ROGER EBERT Horror fans are a particular breed. They analyze films with such detail and expertise that I am remi...
ROGER EBERT Lebanon was at one time known as a nation that rose above sectarian hatred; Beirut was known as the ...
ROGER EBERT I'm kind of glad the web is sort of totally anarchic. That's fine with me.
ROGER EBERT One of the weapons Marvel used in its climb to comic-book dominance was a willingness to invent new ...
ROGER EBERT It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.
ROGER EBERT The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned ...
ROGER EBERT Yes, I was fat, but I dealt with it by simply never thinking about it. It is useful, when you are fa...
ROGER EBERT What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yoursel...
ROGER EBERT I know death is coming, and I do not fear it. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think...
ROGER EBERT The moment a man stops dreaming is the moment he petrifies inside...
ROGER EBERT I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.
ROGER EBERT Many thrillers follow such reliable formulas that you can look at what's happening and guess how...
ROGER EBERT The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The ...
ROGER EBERT If they don't see that evidence, it may well regenerate the case for a further rate hike.
CRAIG EBERT I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giv...
ROGER EBERT The presumption that inflation will naturally recede to the middle of the target band seems a courag...
CRAIG EBERT The market dynamics at the time we were considering those cases distorted the market and resulted in...
DAN EBERT Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized ni...
ROGER EBERT Sarah Palin lacked the preparation or temperament to be one heartbeat away from the presidency, but ...
ROGER EBERT There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.
ROGER EBERT Are vampires kinky? I didn't know.
ROGER EBERT I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.
ROGER EBERT The market dynamics at the time (that) we were considering those cases distorted the market and resu...
DAN EBERT We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition.
ROGER EBERT A lot of people didn't [have sex] in high school in the 1950s, ... My favorite actors include Robert...
ROGER EBERT It's not an environment to be seriously thinking about cutting interest rates. The economy is going ...
CRAIG EBERT Forget the interpretations of recession. We're still talking about a relatively stretched economy. T...
CRAIG EBERT At the time those decisions were being made here in Wisconsin, they made absolute economic sense.
DAN EBERT There's been a definite negative turn in sentiment toward the kiwi. This reflects all those macroeco...
CRAIG EBERT Most of us do not consciously look at movies.
ROGER EBERT Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink ...
ROGER EBERT If there is such a thing as a lock on an Oscar nomination, ... Hoffman has one.
ROGER EBERT A depressing number of people seem to process everything literally. They are to wit as a blind man i...
ROGER EBERT What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: ...
ROGER EBERT [If you like little films about birds you might also consider] The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill. ....
ROGER EBERT When you can't escape and depend constantly on others , You will learn to cry by laughing
ROGER EBERT We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while r...
ROGER EBERT Reese Witherspoon is as cute as a button on Raggedy Ann's overalls, but irresistible raw sex app...
ROGER EBERT If you have to ask what it symbolizes, it didn't.
ROGER EBERT In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but...
ROGER EBERT Sometimes two people will regard each other over a gulf too wide to ever be bridged, and know immedi...
ROGER EBERT Friends don't let jackasses drink and drive.
ROGER EBERT The target audience didn't care that we hated those movies because they just expected us to hate the...
ROGER EBERT The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God...
ROGER EBERT It was her unconvincing, elusive self-defense that continued to damn her.
ROGER EBERT The early years were pretty rocky, there were a lot of fights, a lot of disagreements, some edginess...
ROGER EBERT The secret of the movie is that it doesn't strain to draw parallels with current world events - beca...
ROGER EBERT What am I to think when six weekends of this year already have been won by slasher movies that were ...
ROGER EBERT To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have express...
ROGER EBERT Million Dollar Baby
ROGER EBERT Gene was a lifelong friend and our professional competition only strengthened that bond, ... He show...
ROGER EBERT As someone who admired the freshness and energy of the earlier films, I was amazed, at the end of 'E...
ROGER EBERT It is universally agreed that Jean Renoir was one of the greatest of all directors, and he was also ...
ROGER EBERT The children of Birmingham did not really die in the State of Alabama, however, because Alabama is a...
ROGER EBERT If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstrea...
ROGER EBERT The first thing we need to do is understand how big the problem is. We know the costs have escalated...
DAN EBERT Yes, rates have absolutely gone up this year and it's been very frustrating for me as a commissioner...
DAN EBERT There's no doubt that the turning point is more obvious now and the signs of a further slowdown are ...
CRAIG EBERT There is much on the horizon to support household incomes, which may well prevent the slowdown the R...
CRAIG EBERT It's very hard to describe an economy with the lowest unemployment rate in the world as in recession...
CRAIG EBERT Wage inflation works with a lag and is going to stay high. It's hard to get too bearish about the ou...
CRAIG EBERT We think it's one of the best statements from the bank in a long time. It states the case pretty cle...
CRAIG EBERT The right really dominates radio, and it's amazing how much energy the right spends telling us t...
ROGER EBERT Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.
ROGER EBERT I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.
ROGER EBERT Growing up, I missed the whole 'Three Stooges' thing. Either they weren't on the station...
ROGER EBERT What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for th...
ROGER EBERT Why has Scandinavia been producing such good thrillers? Maybe because their filmmakers can't aff...
ROGER EBERT When we're discussing who to invite to a dinner party, my wife Chaz and I sometimes use the shor...
ROGER EBERT Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intrigui...
ROGER EBERT Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories...
ROGER EBERT In a place like the Greek Theater in L.A., to try and create a close connection with the audience se...
ALEX EBERT At its best, a live show is completely transcendent. The image I get is breaking through glass or sh...
ALEX EBERT I took a lot of long summer road trips with my dad, and the mix of music we listened to on the road ...
ALEX EBERT From about 5 years old on, I was very contemplative and started to become constantly filled with nos...
ALEX EBERT I think Edward Sharpe's music is counter-cultural music in the strangest sense where you have a ...
ALEX EBERT To be lost is as legitimate a part of your process as being found.
ALEX EBERT Pro Tools was invented to quicken the recording process.
ALEX EBERT Berlin would be a great place to have no cell phone, I think. Especially if you were able to live in...
ALEX EBERT There are many examples of great songs that become more famous when they are covered.
ALEX EBERT Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That&...
ALEX EBERT The album is a thing that you can hang out with between shows. I think that it's really nice to ...
ALEX EBERT Heath Ledger was supposed to put our album on what would have been a new record label. I still feel ...
ALEX EBERT For the better part of my life, I was always trying to manufacture somehow what I would consider ...
ALEX EBERT Hip hop was definitely, far and away, the primary influence for at least 10 years of my life. From a...
ALEX EBERT Life always has an unhappy ending, but you can have a lot of fun along the way, and everything doesn...
ROGER EBERT Seeing the film over and over again, year after year, I find it never grows over-familiar. It plays ...
ROGER EBERT The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democr...
FRIEDRICH ENGELS Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Fear is the mother of morality.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.
FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil consc...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch up...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Love is not consolation. It is light.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debat...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solv...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary bein...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE 'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the ru...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - he...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them sh...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has le...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS The state is not abolished, it withers away.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of soc...
FRIEDRICH ENGELS Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of de...
FRIEDRICH ENGELS Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Woman was God's second mistake.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those wi...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a le...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosoph...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.
FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. Th...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE