One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.

Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.

Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.

Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.

I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio.

They feel guilty for having survived so they pretend the bad things never happened
Exodus (1960) screenplay