Arthur Miller Quotes
I don’t believe, and I never did, that a man has to become an informer to practice his profession.
Miller refused to answer with this statement. He was charged and convicted of contempt of Congress and sentenced to a year in jail. His conviction was overturned on appeal.
Arthur Miller, Playwright, Statement when he was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee and asked the contents of conversations and meeting he had attended with other writers
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910. From the point of view of the person or company that bribes or gives campaign contributions to legislators, there has often been a problem that when the heat is on the legislator might begin to refrain from voting as was expected. Twain was joking in this quotation by using the world “morality” to describe the obligation of the legislator to vote for the interest of the briber or campaign contributor. However, there were several major businessmen who actually saw the bribed legislator as having a moral and ethical duty to continue to protect the interest of the briber.
Known as “The Red Spy Queen, she changed allegiance and assisted American counter-espionage personnel.
Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright and essayist in the 20th-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), and A View from the Bridge (1955, revised 1956). He wrote several screenplays and was most noted for his work on The Misfits (1961). The drama Death of a Salesman has been numbered on the short list of finest American plays in the 20th century.
