Top 39 Quotes by Harold Pinter

I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.

I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.

While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.

I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.

One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.

It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.

It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.