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Anything you do for yourself is a waste of spirit. Audrey Hepburn, Always (1989) We’re placed here with certain talents and capabilities, and it’s up to each one of us to use those talents and capabilities as best we can. Ed Harris, The Right Stuff (1983) If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced. David Duchovny, The X-Files (1998) Sometimes it is hard for us to believe that the good Lord had a plan. James Gillis, The Big Chill (1983) The fighting to cleanse the world of ancient evils. Humphrey Bogart, Key Largo (1948) No more rich people, no more poor people, everybody’s the same. Isn’t that what we said we always wanted? Ben Kingsley, Sneakers (1992) Someday this war’s gonna end. Robert Duvall, Apocalypse Now (1979) What national security permits the removal of fundamental power from the hands of the American people? Kevin Costner, JFK (1991) In this country it’s not only permissible to question our leaders, it’s our responsibility. Michael J. Fox, The American President (1995) People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people. Hugo Weaving, V for Vendetta (2006) The dream don’t come no closer by itself. We got to run after it. Al Pacino, Carlito’s Way (1993) Are not the satisfactions of being a good man among our common men great enough to sustain us any more? James Gillis, The Big Chill (1983) There is more than one option here, and if one isn’t occurring to us it’s because we haven’t tried hard enough. Steven Culp, Thirteen Days (2000) Remember, nothing remains the same. Everything changes. Zul Vellani, Siddartha (1972) Maybe it is a rotten world. But a cause isn’t lost as long as someone’s willing to go on fighting. Lauren Bacall, Key Largo (1948) With great power comes great responsibility. Cliff Robertson, Spider-Man 2 (2004) How come you never learned that it was wrong? That there are certain things you do not do - you do not do - in a civilized society. Minnie Driver, Gross Pointe Blank (1997) Imagine a king who fights his own battles. Wouldn’t that be a sight? Brad Pitt, Troy (2004) Individual human beings have to create justice and this is not easy, because the truth often poses a threat to power. And one often has to fight power at great risk to themselves. Kevin Costner, JFK (1991) Countries, at least democratic ones, they have some obligation to their citizens, don’t they? Dennis Quaid, In Good Company (2004) Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older. And then before you know it, they’ve grown. Johnny Depp, Finding Neverland (2004) The whole world’s going to hell and you’re just gonna sit there? Hugh Jackman, X-Men 3 (2006) Countries, at least democratic ones, they have some obligation to their citizens, don’t they? Dennis Quaid, In Good Company (2004) No one gets left behind! Steve Carell, Little Miss Sunshine (2006) Can causing someone else’s suffering ever truly ease one’s own suffering? Sam Golzari, American Dreamz (2006) How does a man get to a place where he can say “Throw those lives away” so easily? Bruce Greenwood, Thirteen Days (2000) Every jackass thinks he knows what war is, especially that have never been in one. Actor unknown, Flags of Our Fathers (2006) I don’t believe that one should devote his life to morbid self-attention. Robert De Niro, Taxi Driver (1976) I’m a big supporter of fixing potholes and erecting swingsets and building shelters. I am more than happy to pay those taxes. I’m just not such a big fan of the percentage that the government uses for national defense, corporate bailouts and campaign discretionary funds. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Stranger Than Fiction (2000) If we help each other we can all be heroes together. Andy Garcia, Hero (1992) I do hate it when religion comes between us. Daniel Craig, Casino Royale (2006) I’m not so high-class that I can avoid looking at reality. Jerry Orbach, Crimes & Misdemeanors (1989) You want to know how to change the world? One act of random kindness at a time. Morgan Freeman, Evan Almighty (2006) We have to save each other. Because all victims are equal. And none is more equal than others. Sean Connery, The Russia House (1990) How could they forget Vietnam? Julie Christie, Away From Her (2006) You want to know how to change the world? One act of random kindness at a time. Morgan Freeman, Evan Almighty (2006) I ask you why we must tear ourselves apart for this small question of religion. Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth (1998) The people of this country can’t afford to let the president run the country by himself, even foreign affairs, any more than domestic affairs, without the help of the Congress, without the help of the people. Daniel Ellsberg, The Pentagon Papers (2003) Such a lot of guns around town. So few brains. Humphrey Bogart, The Big Sleep (1946) If you can find money to kill people, you can find money to help people. Tony Benn (former member of British Parliament), Sicko (2007) What happens to your brother, it happens to you... When my brother suffers in the world, I suffer also. Ayad Akhtar, The War Within (2005) I don’t care to be respected. I’m trying to live like a true Christian. I’m not going to worry about how I sleep. Look at the fresh graves of the children in the cemetery. Scrub floors and pick coal with the women. Get those fine clothes dirty with the blood and sweat of dying miners. Then come here and lecture me about Christianity! Kirk Douglas, Lust For Life (1956) I want you to tell people the truth, not an easy thing to do because the people don’t want to know the truth. Peter Finch, Network (1976) What happens to your brother, it happens to you... When my brother suffers in the world, I suffer also. Ayad Akhtar, The War Within (2005) We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof, and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. ... We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the results. ... We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. David Strathairn, Good Night, and Good Luck (2005) You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. Gregory Peck, To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) Sometimes all somebody needs is a second chance. Jeff Bridges, Seabiscuit (2003) You can never go wrong with the truth. Brenda Blethyn, Beyond the Sea (2004) I have no problem with money... I need it like everybody else. The question is, what will you do for the money? Where do you draw the line? Hank Azaria, Cradle Will Rock (1999) I stand for the separation of church and state, and the reason that I stand for that is the same reason that I believe our forefathers did. It is not there to protect religion from the grasp of government, but to protect our government from the grasp of religious fanaticism. Joan Allen, The Contender (2000) Words and compassion are the better way, even if it’s slower than a gun. Nicole Kidman, The Interpreter (2005) I thought I had lost my faith in Christ, in God, my savior, my friend. But I haven’t. I have lost my faith in serving men like you...who use God to justify their material agendas. Antonio Banderas, The Body (2000) I hope that I am always able to risk everything for the just and right cause. William Hurt, The Village (2004) Soldiers, they fight for kings they’ve never even met. They do what they’re told, they die when they’re told to die. Don’t waste your life following some fool’s orders. Brad Pitt, Troy (2004) Morally brave men and women, who can face up to church-going gangs of hooded murderers; don’t seem to be many morally brave people left in stock. We appear to be in a condition of profound poverty there. Hal Holbrook, Mark Twain Tonight! (1999) God give me the courage to show you, you are not alone. Emmy Rossum, Phantom of the Opera (2004) The thing they don’t teach you in university, and it should be a course in itself, it should be mandatory, is how to work in close proximity to co-workers that you have nothing in common with, and who you may in fact dislike. ... You need to appear friendly and personable even if it goes against your natural instincts. Even if your natural instincts would have you lean toward rudeness. Fabrizio Filippo-Tom, Waydowntown (2002) Anybody who wants to make a revolution shouldn’t grab a gun. Just go and start working, like we do, to change the world by using science and technology. Stanford R. Ovshinsky, Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006) You’ve got a choice, you know. Just because you’ve done something doesn’t mean you have to keep doing it. Eva Green, Casino Royale (2006) Principles only mean something if you stick by them when they’re inconvenient. Joan Allen, The Contender (2000) I just hate the way people use God as some kind of giant, all-purpose lying mechanism. Billy Connolly, The Man Who Sued God (2001) Nature. It speaks true. Why not man? John Cassavetes, The Tempest (1982) The natural resources of a country are the sovereign property of its people. They are not ours to steal or exploit in the name of our comfort, our corporations, or our consumerism. Stephen Collins, Blood Diamond (2006) Capital punishment, in my view, achieved nothing except revenge. Albert Pierrepoint, Pierrepoint: The Last Hang Man (2005) The only devils in the world are those running round in our own hearts and that is where all our battles ought to be fought. Ben Kingsley, Ghandi (1982) Why is it people who can’t take advice always insist on giving it? Daniel Craig, Casino Royale (2006) Great young people don’t just happen. They come from an environment where they’ve been challenged and nurtured. Chris Eigeman, The Treatment (2006) You’re the government! All of you! Instead of trying to hide the facts, get busy and see that laws are passed that’ll do some good! Pass a federal law that puts the gun in the same class as drugs and white slavery. Actor unknown, Scarface (1932) Peace isn’t a political goal. It’s a human goal. James Spader, The Pentagon Papers (2003) Wouldn’t it be a much happier world if money was not the third arm of religiou? Jean Simmons, Elmer Gantry (1960) I think I’ve been in a bubble or something, thinking that fairness was just going to happen. It’s not. I think people like me are going to have to get up...and go out there and fight for it. Nikki Blonsky, Hairspray (2007) And when [the people] stop being afraid, they rediscover their compassion. Romola Garai, Amazing Grace (2006) Home Personal Links Image Galleries Journeys The Good Old Days The Movie Quotes Project Fiction Rules of the Road Maybe saving a forest starts with preserving some of the feelings that die inside us every day, those parts of ourselves that we deny. For if we cannot respect that interior land, then neither can we respect the land we walk. So let us, in walking gently upon the earth, leave behind a simple legacy: That we’re new warriors, mystic warriors, who love the earth and try to save it. Heather Graham, Twin Peaks (Episode 28) (1990) One has to be willing to surrender, occasionally, one’s beliefs for the greater good. Frank Langella, Starting Out in the Evening (2007) You grow up when you decide to do right, okay? And not what’s right for you, what’s right for everybody. Even when it hurts. Paul Schneider, Lars and the Real Girl (2007) Education is the only way out. The way out of ignorance. The way out of darkness, into the glorious light. Forest Whitaker, The Great Debaters (2007) You’re reading the scriptures, but you’re missing half the message! Why don’t you learn about what to do about the poor? Why do the CEO’s get 500% more than the one at the bottom? Evelyn (last name unknown), What Would Jesus Buy? (2007) Do not be so certain that power is what matters in a man’s life. Voice-over, Protagonist (2007) I think the world would be a better place if everybody sang and danced for no apparent reason. Lili Taylor, Starting Out in the Evening (2007) The time for justice, the time for freedom, the time for equality, is always, is always, right now. 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