Oliver Stone
Conspiracy chronicler of JFK, Stone's polemics sparked quotable political debates.
Most quoted
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, for knowledge, has marked the upward surge of mankind."
— from Wall Street (film), 1987
"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."
— from Platoon (film), 1986
"The media is the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses."
— from Natural Born Killers (film), 1994
All quotes by Oliver Stone (100)
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
Money never sleeps.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Every man dies, not every man really lives.
The truth will set you free.
You can't handle the truth!
The world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants in life is the will to try it and the faith to believe it's possible.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The pen is mightier than the sword.
All that glitters is not gold.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
The only constant in life is change.
The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
To be or not to be, that is the question.
Contemporaries of Oliver Stone
Other Film & Theaters born within 50 years of Oliver Stone (1946).