The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

—Tennessee Williams

About Tennessee Williams

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Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.

More quotations from Tennessee Williams

It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.

—Tennessee Williams

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes, you'll know you're dead.

—Tennessee Williams

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

—Tennessee Williams

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

—Tennessee Williams

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Don Quixote is the true American.… You do not have to look in many American eyes to suddenly meet somewhere the beautiful grave lunacy of his gaze.

—Tennessee Williams

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

—Helen Keller

Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.

—General Douglas Macarthur

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

—Edmund Burke

The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.

A man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

—Henry Miller

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