I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

—Lillian Hellman

About Lillian Hellman

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Lillian Florence Hellman (June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984) was an American playwright, prose writer, memoirist, and screenwriter known for her success on Broadway as well as her communist views and political activism. She was blacklisted after her appearance before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) at the...

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People change and forget to tell each other.

—Lillian Hellman

relationships people change

My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.

—Lillian Hellman

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

—Lillian Hellman

justice opinion prejudice perspective

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

—Lillian Hellman

hope change habit

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it, like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat it.

—Lillian Hellman

action locusts watching

More quotations tagged with “conscience”

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

—Joseph Conrad

The conscience of a people is their power.

Before I can live with other folks, I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

—H. L. Mencken

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