Albert Maltz Quotes

#1. When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was to be found there. Certainly, millions who joined it the world over, like myself, didn't join it for profit.

Albert Maltz

#2. We've turned into a nation of mothers to our men. I think it's a dreadful mistake that doesn't benefit anybody.

Joy Browne

#3. By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.

Albert Maltz

#4. By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.

Albert Maltz

#5. And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read.

Albert Maltz

#6. To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand.

Albert Maltz

#7. Compassion is an ordinary intent that is felt for everywhere in this world and it is the intent that, 'the whole world is trapped in worldly miseries; how can their miseries be alleviated?

Dada Bhagwan

#8. Is there any conflict between science and religion? There is no conflict in the mind of God, but often there is conflict in the minds of men.

Henry B. Eyring

#9. Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people ... have to walk out of the shadows.

Albert Maltz

#10. I graduated in 1930 and I went up to the Yale Drama School for two years.

Albert Maltz

#11. Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked.

Bertrand Russell

#12. I've always felt that the quality of the voice is where the real content of a song lies. Words only suggest an experience, but the voice is that experience.

Jeff Buckley

#13. It's hard for me to take care of myself, let's put it that way. I am my last priority.

Rachel Zoe