Quotes on Beatty

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way, he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service.

We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?

I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff. Bang, you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy authority. I know. I've been through it all.