More Quotes by John Steinbeck
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.
To be alive at all is to have scars.
Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick.
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
