To admit what you see endangers principles.

— Arthur Miller

Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.

— Arthur Miller

[W]e conceive the Devil as a necessary part of a respectable view of cosmology. Ours is a divided empire in which certain ideas and emotions and actions are of God, and their opposites are of Lucifer. It is as impossible for most men to conceive of a morality without sin as of an earth without 'sky'. Since 1692 a great but superficial change has wiped out God's beard and the Devil's horns, but the world is still gripped between two diametrically opposed absolutes. The concept of unity, in which positive and negative are attributes of the same force, in which good and evil are relative, ever-changing, and always joined to the same phenomenon - such a concept is still reserved to the physical sciences and to the few who have grasped the history of ideas.

— Arthur Miller

What victory would the Devil have to win a soul already bad? It is the best the Devil wants, and who is better than the minister." - Rev. John Hale

— Arthur Miller

When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regarded as a hostile area, that all gods were useful and essentially friendly to man despite occasional lapses when we see the steady methodical inculcation into humanity of the idea of man's worthlessness - until redeemed - the necessity of the Devil may become evident as a weapon, a weapon designed and used time and time again in every age to whip men into a surrender to a particular church or church state.

— Arthur Miller

When the law is wrong it's because it's unnatural, but in this case it is natural and a river will drown you if you buck it now

— Arthur Miller

Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?

— Arthur Miller

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

— Arthur Miller

Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it.

— Arthur Miller

You never do any good until you get into some trouble.

— Arthur Miller