John Robert Whiting

“For God's sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines.”

“Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.”

“Most of us are sane and tolerant, but the lunatic fringe just wait for a leader.”

“Death is a confirmation of the way I've lived.”

“Man is a political animal, creature of social circumstance. The liberal democratic ideal of man is an exploded myth.”

“We are all of us, more or less, in the position of the man who has been no more than a week in a new and strange country.”

“The problem is to be at peace with a murderous world.”

“The purpose of the theatre is to show us, in a concrete way, the abstractions that we are.”

“To be a man is to be in a state of possession.”