"No generation can do another generation's work for it. What we human beings can do at most is to mark out the pathway a little clearer for the generations to come after, and put legible signboards at the points where the greatest dangers have threatened us, in the hope that our posterity will read, understand, and be warned."

“I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.”

Source : John Brown (1910). “The Life and Letters of John Brown, Liberator of Kansas and Martyr of Virginia”

“When you get as old as I am, you kind of believe there's nothing new under the sun, but there's always a fresh way of looking at something. That's why I love working with young people. They remind you of things you used to know and have since forgotten.”

“We live in a cold, cold world...”

“You don't find a style. A style finds you”

“Even though I'm English, I've all my life been heavily exposed to American television and culture in general.”

Source : "Dominic West on The Hour, John Carter, and yes, The Wire". Interview with Will Harris, tv.avclub.com. November 26, 2012.

“Her eyes always had a frantic, lost look. He could never cure her eyes of that.”

“I will risk everything to avoid being bored.”

“And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting?”