Inherit The Wind Quotes

You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.

In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.

Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.

I may be rancid butter, but I'm on your side of the bread.

All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.

When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.

Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.

How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin?

No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.

Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is more of a miracle than any sticks turned to snakes, or the parting of waters!

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

Dreamers are not content with being mediocre.

Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it. Sometimes I think there's a man who sits behind a counter and says, "All right, you can have a telephone but you lose privacy and the charm of distance. Madam, you may vote but at a price. You lose the right to retreat behind the powder puff or your petticoat. Mister, you may conquer the air but the birds will lose their wonder and the clouds will smell of gasoline."

Darwin was Wrong! Man's still an ape.

The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled at the blacklisting. We were appalled at thought control.

But to paraphrase Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind, ignorance and mediocrity are forever busy, and the forces of mediocrity aren't content with being mediocre; they'll do everything in their power to prevent even the humblest of teachers and children from accomplishing anything extraordinary. For good work shines a light on the failures of the mediocre, and that is a light which terrifies those who conspire to keep our nation's children, like themselves, ordinary.