My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth. That ain't easy. There are ...so few truth-speaking traditions in this society in which the myth of "Western civilization" has claimed the allegiance of so many. We have rarely been encouraged and equipped to appreciate the fact that the truth works, that it releases the Spirit and that it is a joyous thing. We live in a part of the world, for example, that equates criticism with assault, that equates social responsibility with naive idealism, that defines the unrelenting pursuit of knowledge and wisdom as fanaticism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pike Bishop: He gave his word. Dutch: He gave his word to a railroad.... Pike Bishop: It's his word. Dutch: That ain't what counts. It's who you give it to.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
crew member [offscreen]: That's an awful big town San Francisco. Weinberg: Strictly a one-whistle stop. There's only one city... in the USA and that's New York. Chief Sergeant: Oh, you're just another hometown hick, Weinberg. What's wrong with California? Weinberg: California. The sun shines and nothing happens. Before you know it, you're sixty years old. Chief Sergeant: It's no different from New York. My sister's been tryin' to get out of Brooklyn for the last forty years. Weinberg: Brooklyn. That ain't New York, Chief. Once you cross that Brooklyn Bridge, you're out of this world. The only noise you hear is the hardening of your arteries. You know when I used to drive a hack, I had a pal who crossed that bridge back in 1929 and ain't never heard from him since.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Happiness ain't a thing in itself--it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.... And so, as soon as the novelty is o...ver and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He weren't no saint--but at Jedgment I'd run my chance with Jim,... 'Longside of some pious gentlemen That wouldn't shook hands with him. He seen his duty, a dead-sure thing,-- And went for it, thar an' then: And Christ ain't a-goin' to be too hard On a man that died for me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Capt. Rev. Samuel Clayton: What good did that do ya? Ethan Edwards: By what you preach none. By what that Comanch believes, a...in't got no eyes he can't enter the spirit land. Has to wander forever between the winds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »