#w

The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law. ↗

— Maria Edgeworth

#done #law #make #ought #our

I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience. ↗

— Charles Edison

#conscience #except #i #make #my own

In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural. ↗

— Charles Edison

#miracle #natural #normal #physics #places

For weeks after 9/11 you could smell the dust and pulverised concrete in New York, and the National Guard came in, so there was a military presence on the streets. It was intense. Overwhelming. Heartbreaking. ↗

— Mark Boal

#came #concrete #could #dust #guard

We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws. ↗

— Henry Knox

#correspondent #force #government #imagined #laws

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#any #anything #came #come #did

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary. ↗

— Ronald Blythe

#because #extraordinary #huge #in the past #multitude

9/11, the wars and terrorism have affected all of us in different ways: people who lost family on 9/11, the people who lost family in the wars and people who lost family in various terrorist attacks that have occurred since. ↗

— Mark Boal

#attacks #different #different ways #family #lost

Film-makers are always going to be interested in making movies that plug into society around them. That's what a vibrant, artistically alert community should be doing. After all, it would be sad if we only made films about alien robots. ↗

— Mark Boal

#after #alert #alien #always #around

I actually think every war movie is an antiwar movie in its own way - with the exception of some of the propaganda movies. ↗

— Mark Boal

#antiwar #every #exception #i #movie