Roger Ebert Quotes

Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

It is human nature to look away from illness.

We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality.

I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.

Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice, and I do not need to scream.

We are born into a box of time and space.

We use words and communication to break out of it and to reach out to others.

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already know. This is a form of living death. Its apotheosis is the daily poll in USA Today, which informs us what percentage of a small number of unscientifically selected people called a toll number to vote on questions that cannot possibly be responded to with a yes or no.

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.