Quotes

“Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.” Stanley Kubrick

“A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.” Stanley Kubrick

“The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.” Stanley Kubrick

“You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.” Stanley Kubrick

“It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.” Stanley Kubrick

“Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.” Stanley Kubrick

“It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.” Stanley Kubrick

“What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?” Stanley Kubrick

“The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.” Stanley Kubrick

“Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.” Stanley Kubrick

“If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.” Stanley Kubrick

“You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.” Stanley Kubrick

“There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.” Stanley Kubrick

“The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.” Stanley Kubrick

“If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.” Stanley Kubrick

“Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.” Stanley Kubrick

“I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.” Stanley Kubrick

“When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.” Stanley Kubrick

“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.” Immanuel Kant

“Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.” Immanuel Kant

“Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.” Immanuel Kant

“All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?” Immanuel Kant

“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.” Immanuel Kant

“From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.” Immanuel Kant

“Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.” Immanuel Kant

“Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'” Immanuel Kant